Big Fish
Shows · Big Fish
Edward Bloom is a traveling salesman who has always told his son Will fantastical stories about his life — battling giants, discovering a hidden town called Spectre, and taming an untamable witch. As Edward lies dying, Will tries to separate fact from fiction and understand the real man behind the tall tales, ultimately discovering that his father's stories, however embellished, contain deep emotional truths about lo…
- Opened
- 2013
- Performances
- 98
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Productions1 on Broadway
| 2013 | Neil Simon Theatre Original. October 6, 2013 · Susan Stroman | 98 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 2 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Theatrical Rights Worldwide | not stated by this source |
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5 passages naming Big Fish, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Hugh Wheeler’s Big Fish, Little Fish (3/15/61; 101 performances) was directed by Sir John Gielgud. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p569
In the 1960s Wheeler branched out into playwriting with three theatrical works: Big Fish, Little Fish (1961, starring Jason Robards and Hume Cronyn); Look, We’ve Come Through (1961); and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1966, based on a Shirley Jackson novel). book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p912
Lippa’s latest musical Big Fish opened and closed in fall of 2013. book:a-history-of-the-american-musical-theatre-no-business-like-nathaniel-hurwitz-tay#p268
Between 2001 and 2014 the majority of new musicals were based on successful movies; these include: ... Big Fish and Rocky, The Musical. book:a-history-of-the-american-musical-theatre-no-business-like-nathaniel-hurwitz-tay#p287
Andrew Lippa’s Big Fish came and went fairly unceremoniously. book:a-history-of-the-american-musical-theatre-no-business-like-nathaniel-hurwitz-tay#p300
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