War Paint, 2017

The run closed November 5, 2017

Opened

2017

Closed

November 5, 2017

Performances

236

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Unknown

Of the 425 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and carry a performance count, this is the 94th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it15 named

David Girolmo
Steffanie Leigh
Erik Liberman
Barbara Marineau
Stephanie Jae Park
Angel Reda
Stephanie Rothenberg
Bart Shatto

7 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 8 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.

Characters1 roles held

Jennifer Rias Miss Teale and others

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

Michael Greif

Choreographer

Christopher Gattelli

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.

Recordings 1 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against War Paint, 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

War Paint is a musical with music by Scott Frankel, lyrics by Michael Korie, and a book by Doug Wright. It is based both on Lindy Woodhead's 2004 book War Paint and on the 2007 documentary film The Powder & the Glory by Ann Carol Grossman and Arnie Reisman. The musical focuses on the lives of and rivalry between 20th-century female entrepreneurs Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein.

• Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstein were portrayed by Christine Ebersole and Patti LuPone in the 2017 Broadway musical War Paint, Arden and Rubenstein were parodied by Marian Santre and Marie Stevens in the “Fifth Avenue” sequence. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 324
• The real reason War Paint closed was because in its final thirteen weeks on Broadway, it never sold better than 49 percent of its gross potential. The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 120

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What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• Which of the 1 recordings of War Paint document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.