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Shows · Swing! · St. James Theatre, 1999

Swing!, 1999

Opened December 9, 1999

Closed January 14, 2001

461 performances

St. James Theatre

Original

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 1990s, this had the 51st longest run.

Who was in it27 named

Laureen Baldovi
Kristine Bendul
Carol Bentley
Caitlin Carter
Geralyn del Corso
Desiree Duarte
Beverly Durand
Erin East
Kevin Michael Gaudin
Edgar Godineaux
Aldrin Gonzalez
Michael Gruber
Keith Lamelle Thomas
J C Montgomery
Arte Phillips
Robert Royston
Carlos Sierra Lopez
Jenny Thomas
Maria Torres
Quinn M Bass
Sarah Jane Nelson
Jennifer Shrader
Dana Solimando

Creative team

Director
Jerry Zaks
Orchestrations
Harold Wheeler, Yaron Gershovsky, Ian Herman, Casey MacGill, Michael Rafter, Jeanine Tesori, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Benny Goodman, James R. Mundy, Charles Christian, B. Plater, T. Bradshaw, B. Feyhe, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James, Count Basie, Don Raye, Hughie Prince, Ilene Reid, Sid Kuller, Hoagy Carmichael, Paul Francis Webster, Earl Hagen, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Paul Kelly, Johnny Mercer, Edgar DeLange, Jerry Gray, Mack Gordon, Harry Warren, Mack David, Joan Whitney, Alex J. Kramer, Jack Murphy, Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Joe Garland, Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept, Charlie Tobias, Walter Bishop, Lewis Raymond, Clarence Williams, Juan Tizol, Arthur Hamilton, Harold Arlen, Bob Wills, Tommy Duncan, Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks, Dorothy Fields, Otto A. Harbach, Jimmy McHugh, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Bill Elliott, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb, Andy Razaf 2, Michael Heitzman, E. Johnson, Louis Prima, Leon Berry, Seán Martin Hingston

Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination

Best Musical
Nominated

Recordings 3 released while this run was on

1999
Ballroom Swing Casaphon CP 5001, released 1999
Germany
1999
Christmas Swing Platinum Disc Corporation 14862, released 1999
Canada
2000
Gypsy Swing Refined Records RR 1001, released 2000
United States

7 more exist for other runs of this show: see Swing! for all of them.

Around this production

The show capitalized on the late-1990s swing revival and featured multiple choreographers, each bringing a different style. A young Casey Nicholaw was a cast member before becoming one of Broadway's top director-choreographers.

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