Shows · Café Crown
In 1942, the colorful denizens of a Second Avenue café that serves as the unofficial clubhouse of the Yiddish theatre world gather to gossip, scheme, and dream. The café's regulars — aging actors, playwrights, critics, and hangers-on — navigate romantic entanglements and artistic rivalries while a flamboyant Yiddish theatre star attempts to mount an ambitious new production, even as the world of Yiddish theatre fades…
- Opened
- 1989
- Performances
- 3
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Megamusical
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1989 | Brooks Atkinson Theatre Original. March 28, 1989 · Martin Charnin | 3 performances |
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3 passages naming Café Crown, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
He first appeared on Broadway in 1942 in Café Crown, but he reached star status with his performances in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) and as Tevye the milkman in Fiddler on the Roof (1964). book:the-golden-age-of-american-musical-theatre-1943-1965-naden-corinne-j-rowman-litt#p165
Of the four major flops of the year three are long forgotten — Café Crown (3), Something More! or less (15), and the Italian Rugantino (28) by Giovannini and Garinei, three of whose musicals reached London — but one, Anyone Can Whistle (9) has passed into legend. book:west-end-broadway-the-golden-age-of-the-american-musical-adrian-wright-boydell-b#p235
The Producers (1968). Among the doctored and defaced window cards festooned in Max Bialystock’s office are three musicals from 1964—Café Crown, Foxy, and Something More!—and one from 1965: La Grosse Valise. book:the-book-of-broadway-musical-debates-disputes-and-peter-filichia-rowman-littlefi#p295
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