The Rink, 1984

The run closed August 4, 1984

Opened

February 9, 1984

Closed

August 4, 1984

Performances

204

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Of the 464 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and carry a performance count, this is the 90th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Rink 1 more that season

2018

Playhouse Theatre Transfer

Who was in it10 named

Kim Hauser
Mel Johnson Jr
Frank Mastrocola

7 of these 10 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 3 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.

Creative team

Director

A. J. Antoon

Choreographer

Graciela Daniele

Orchestrations

Micha

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 3 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against The Rink, 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

Antoon was hired to direct his first musical.

• In 1984, she won a long-deserved Tony Award for The Rink, written specifically for her by longtime friends Kander and Ebb. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 182
• Subsequent Kander and Ebb musicals include The Rink (1984), And the World Goes Round (1991), and Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993), all of which proved unsuccessful. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1097
• Minnelli originated roles in three Broadway musicals, Flora, the Red Menace (1965), The Act (1977), and The Rink (1984), and during the run of Chicago (1975) briefly replaced Gwen Verdon and later performed the title role of Victor/Victoria (1995), which had been originated by Julie Andrews. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 65
• The song “Over the Wall” was a reworked version of “The Top of the Hill” (Zorba, 1968) and “The Day after That” was a revised version of “Colored Lights” (The Rink, 1984). The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 138
• Rivera won Tonys for Best Actress in a M usical for The Rink (1984) and Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993). The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre 1943 1965 Naden Corinne J Rowman Litt, p. 176

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.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• Which of the 3 recordings of The Rink document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.