Shows · Ain't Broadway Grand
A backstage comedy set in the golden age of Broadway, the show follows flamboyant producer Mike Todd as he battles to mount a lavish new musical while juggling creditors, temperamental stars, and his own outsized ambitions. Based loosely on the real exploits of the legendary showman, the story captures the chaos and glamour of putting on a Broadway show in the 1940s.
- Opened
- 1993
- Performances
- 25
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Megamusical
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1993 | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Original. April 18, 1993 · Scott Harris | 25 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
4 passages naming Ain't Broadway Grand, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
His subsequent Broadway scores have proved musically barren, namely Saravd (1979), Chu-Chem (1989), and Ain't Broadway Grand (1993). book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p464
"Ain't Broadway Grand," a musical that was part of the Broadway scene. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1123
Ain't Broadway Grand, 442 book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p1122
Even the massive PBS Broadway series included only the briefest of clips of him. He did appear as a character in a musical, the short-lived Mike Todd bio Ain't Broadway Grand, in which he was capably impersonated by Gerry Vichi, who got Clark's bawdy spirit right, if not his physical comedy. book:i-m-the-greatest-star-broadway-s-top-musical-legends-from-1900-to-today-robert-v#p96
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