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Shows · Song and Dance · Royale Theatre, 1985

Song and Dance, 1985

Opened September 18, 1985

Closed November 8, 1986

474 performances

Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

Original

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 1980s, this had the 50th longest run.

Who was in it16 named

Denise Faye
Gen Horiuchi
Mary Ellen Stuart
Buddy Balou
Victor Barbee
John Meehan
Lynne Savage

Creative team

Choreographer
Peter Martins
Producer
Cameron Mackintosh, Shubert Organization, FWM Producing Group
Orchestrations
David Cullen

Tony Awards 0 from 0 nominations

Best Musical
Nominated

Recordings 1 released while this run was on

1985
United States

3 more exist for other runs of this show: see Song and Dance for all of them.

Around this production

Tell Me on a Sunday was paired with an orchestral piece of Lloyd Webber’s Variations to make up the show Song and Dance. It opened at London’s Palace 551 Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 573

Gene Buck, one of Cohan’s best friends wrote: A part of our nation died when George made his final exit. The Song and Dance Man (as he loved to refer to himself), our First Actor and the greatest single figure the American Theatre ever developed in its history has gone to his eternal rest.

Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 132

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