Ballroom
Shows · Ballroom
Bea Asher, a lonely widow from the Bronx, reluctantly goes to a local ballroom dance hall at the urging of her friends. There she meets Al Rossi, a married mailman who is a regular at the hall. They begin a tender romance on the dance floor, finding joy and companionship in each other's arms. But Bea must decide whether to continue a relationship with a man who will never leave his wife, or walk away from the only ha…
- Opened
- 1978
- Performances
- 116
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1978 | Majestic Theatre Original. December 14, 1978 · Michael Bennett | 116 performances · 1 Tony wins |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 1 album held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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Michael Bennett directed and choreographed Ballroom (1978). book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p273
Ballroom (12/14/78; 116 performances) was Michael Bennett’s first musical following the remarkable success of A Chorus Line, but the material was third-rate and even Bennett couldn’t make Ballroom come alive. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p352
After Annie, she returned to the world of shows whose ledgers ended on the debit side, albeit this time in a classy failure with her performance as widow Bea Asher in Michael Bennett’s Ballroom. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p18
That show, Ballroom, contained some classic Bennett touches, but it was ultimately let down by a weak score and lack of conflict. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p279
She was a replacement Mrs. Lovett in the original production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), succeeding Angela Lansbury. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p241
Ballroom broke the $2-million plateau while the concurrent Platinum lost $1.75 million, Grand Tour dropped $1.5 million, and A Broadway Musical proved a bargain at a cool million—all five opening within a grisly twelve weeks. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p36
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