Million Dollar Quartet, 2010

The run closed June 12, 2011

Opened

April 11, 2010

Closed

June 12, 2011

Performances

489

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Nederlander Theatre

Of the 425 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and carry a performance count, this is the 50th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Million Dollar Quartet 1 more that season

2011

Noël Coward Theatre Original

Who was in it7 named

7 of these 7 names have a person record behind them and link to one. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Eric Schaeffer

Producer

Relevant Theatricals, John Cossette Productions, American Pop Anthology, Broadway Across America (John Gore: CEO; Thomas B. McGrath: Chairman; Beth Williams: COO & Head of Production), and James L. Nederlander

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination

Best Musical

Nominated

Recordings 2 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Million Dollar Quartet, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

Opening Night Gifts: The cast got iPads and iPods and the crew got a fancy messenger bag! The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2010 To May 2011 Edited By Robert Viagas 7th, p. 259

• The session wasn’t discovered until years later, but when it was, it was dubbed “The Million Dollar Quartet,” despite the fact that Cash had departed the studio before producer Sam Phillips could roll tape. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 358
• Shows Set in the South: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Driving Miss Daisy Free Man of Color, Memphis, Million Dollar Quartet, The Scottsboro Boys. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2010 To May 2011 Viagas Robert 7th Annual Ed, p. 13
• Million Dollar Quartet ends its Broadway run after 489 performances, but six weeks later it transfers to Off Broadway's New World Stages ten blocks away and continues its run alongside other expatriate Broadway shows, Avenue Qand Rent. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2011 To May 2012 Viagas Robert 8th Annual Ed, p. 10
• Shows Set in the South: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Driving Miss Daisy, Free Man of Color, Memphis, Million Dollar Quartet, The Scottsboro Boys. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2010 To May 2011 Edited By Robert Viagas 7th, p. 13

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• Which of the 2 recordings of Million Dollar Quartet document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.