Rags, 1986

The run closed August 23, 1986

Opened

August 21, 1986

Closed

August 23, 1986

Performances

4

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Mark Hellinger Theatre

Of the 464 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and carry a performance count, this is the 415th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it28 named

John Aller
Michael Cone
Michael Davis
Joan Finkelstein
Andy Gale
Wendy Kimball
Audrey Lavine
Mordecai Lawner
Devon Michaels
Robert Radford
Irma Rogers
Stan Rubin
Peter Samuel
Bonnie Schon
Catherine Ulissey

13 of these 28 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 15 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters11 roles held

Teresa Stratas Rebecca Hershkowitz
Josh Blake David Hershkowitz
Larry Kert Nathan Hershkowitz
Terrence Mann Saul (Changed to Sal Russo)
Judy Kuhn Bella Cohen
Dick Latessa Avram Cohen
Lonny Price Ben Levitowitz
Marcia Lewis Rachel Brodsky
Evelyn Baron Anna Blumberg
Mordecai Lawner Jack Blumberg
N Max Bronfman

These came out of a wiki table. The names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.

Creative team

Director

Gene Saks

Choreographer

Ron Field

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 Rags, 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

Despite closing after just 4 performances, Rags has become a cult favorite with a devoted following. The score by Strouse and Schwartz is widely admired, and the show has been significantly revised for subsequent productions.

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.
• Which of the 2 recordings of Rags document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.