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Shows · The Last Ship · Neil Simon Theatre, 2014

The Last Ship, 2014

Opened October 26, 2014

Closed January 24, 2015

105 performances

Neil Simon Theatre

Original

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 2010s, this had the 189th longest run.

Who was in it24 named

Dawn Cantwell as Young Meg
David Michael Garry
Timothy Gulan
Shawna M Hamic as Beatrice Dees
Rich Hebert as Adrian Sanderson
Todd A Horman
Matthew Stocke as Davey Harrison
Jeremy Woodard
Collin Kelly-Sordelet as Tom Dawson & Young Gideon
colspan='2' "text-align: center; as Ellen Dawson
colspan='2' "text-align: center; as Baroness Tynedale
colspan='5' "text-align: center; as Ferryman

Creative team

Choreographer
Steven Hoggett
Orchestrations
Rob Mathes

Recordings 1 released while this run was on

2014
The Last Ship: Original Broadway Cast Recording
The Last Ship: Original Broadway Cast Recording Universal UMC B0022456-02, released December 14, 2014
United States

16 more exist for other runs of this show: see The Last Ship for all of them.

Around this production

The Last Ship is an original musical with music and lyrics by Sting and a book by Lorne Campbell. Inspired by Sting's own childhood experiences and the shipbuilding industry in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, the musical with book by John Logan and Brian Yorkey played at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago, before moving to the Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway in 2014. The musical received two Tony Award nominations in 2015, for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations. The musical was later significantly revised. Following a UK national tour and subsequent six-week run at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, it embarked on a US national tour with the official opening at the Ahmanson Theat…

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