Wonderland, 2011

The run closed May 15, 2011

Opened

April 17, 2011

Closed

May 15, 2011

Performances

33

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Unknown

Of the 425 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and carry a performance count, this is the 370th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Wonderland 1 more that season

1905

Majestic Theatre Original

73 perf.

Who was in it22 named

Carly Rose Sonenclar
Edward Staudenmayer
Danny Stiles
Joey Calveri
Sae la Chin
Derek Ferguson
Wilkie Ferguson
Laura Hall
Natalie Hill
Morgan James
Ryan Link
Kate Loprest
Heather Parcells
Julius Anthony Rubio
Tanairi Sade Vazquez

7 of these 22 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 15 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

Gregory Boyd

Choreographer

Marguerite Derricks

Orchestrations

Kim Scharnberg

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 2 held for the work

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

Wonderland, formerly called Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure or Wonderland: A New Alice, is a musical play with a book by Jack Murphy and Gregory Boyd, lyrics by Murphy, and music by Frank Wildhorn. The story, a contemporary version of the novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) by Lewis Carroll, is set in New York City and focuses on writer Alice Cornwinkle and her 10-year-old daughter Chloe. After various workshops and productions of the musical in Tampa, Florida and Houston, Texas, the show premiered on Broadway on April 17, 2011, closing a month later, on May 15, 2011.

• In June, 1982, a musical called Play Me A Country Song had a very brief run here; and in December of that year, Eva Le Gallienne revived her adaptation of Alice in Wonderland (co-authored with Florida Friebus) for a brief run. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 220
• reopened as Wonderland, January 1913; renamed the New York Theatre, 1913; opened as Loew’s New York, 1915. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 405
• Universal also went looking for a black family musical, plunging on Mike Nichols’s Alice [1978], which starred Debbie Allen in an alcoholic Wonderland and shuttered ignominiously in Philadelphia. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 211
• There have been numerous musical adaptations of Carroll’s Alice stories, including a number of Off- and Off-Off-Broadway versions such as Alice with Kisses (1964; closed in previews but memorialized with its window card tacked on the wall of Max Bialystock’s office in the 1967 film The Producers); Alice in Wonderland (… The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 262
• His Wonderland (2011) was a contemporary take on Lewis B. Carroll’s 1865 novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and his most recent Broadway musical Bonnie & Clyde (2011) took place in the 1930s. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 373

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 2 recordings of Wonderland document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.