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Shows · Nick & Nora · Marquis Theatre, 1991

Nick & Nora, 1991

Opened December 8, 1991

Closed December 15, 1991

9 performances

Marquis Theatre

Original

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 1990s, this had the 332nd longest run.

Who was in it19 named

Christine Baranski
Jeff Brooks
Tim Connell
John Jellison
Michael Lombard
Kathy Morath
Kip Niven
Kris Phillips
Remak Ramsay
Riley
Hal Robinson
Kristen Wilson

Creative team

Director
Arthur Laurents
Choreographer
Tina Paul
Orchestrations
Jonathan Tunick 11

Around this production

Nick & Nora is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr., and music by Charles Strouse. The plot involves witty and urbane high society couple Nick and Nora Charles, characters created by Dashiell Hammett in his novel The Thin Man, which inspired six films, a radio show, and a television series. In this version, the two are attempting to solve the murder of a bookkeeper on a film production in Hollywood. Crucially, the musical departs from the formula of previous incarnations, defined by the chemistry between Nick and Nora, by creating a subplot of marital woes and tensions between them. The show had a brief run of nine performances on Broadway in 1991, and was…

But the producers didn’t get the money from that room that day, and spent the next year searching and scrounging for it. Broadway Musicals the Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of Filichia Peter New Yor, p. 204

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