Shows · Nick & Nora
The mystery was so “convoluted Ferdinand Magellan couldn’t follow it home,” there were “few real songs” but instead “mostly song fragments,” and despite the large stage of the Marquis Theater the show seemed to be played “on a postage stamp” with usually never more than four performers on view at any given moment. Howard Kissel in the New York Daily News said the mystery was “so contrived” that even if Humphrey Bogar…
- Opened
- 1991
- Performances
- 9
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Megamusical
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1991 | Marquis Theatre Original. December 8, 1991 · Arthur Laurents | 9 performances |
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9 passages naming Nick & Nora, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
He directed I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1962), Anyone Can Whistle, Gypsy, The Madwoman of Central Park West, La Cage aux Folles (1983), and Nick & Nora, and won a Tony for La Cage aux Folles. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p224
NICK & NORA [December 8, 1991], and ANNIE WARBUCKS [August 9, 1993]}—lighting the lights of Broadway for a total of only nineteen performances combined. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p332
Jeremy Gerard in Variety said The Red Shoes joined “the growing roster of recent film-to-tuner flops,” which included Nick & Nora, My Favorite Year, and The Goodbye Girl. book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p162
In 1994, she married actor Chris Sarandon, whom she met during the brief run of the ill-fated Broadway musical Nick & Nora (1986), in which she played Nora Charles. book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p307
The Hellinger Theatre never came back on the market. In 1991, after backing yet another flop, Nick & Nora, Nederlander sold the theater to the Times Square Church for $17 million. book:razzle-dazzle-the-battle-for-broadway-michael-riedel-2015-simon-schuster-limited#p395
Laurents wrote and directed Nick & Nora (a one-week 1991 flop) that starred Barry Bostwick, Joanna Gleason, and Christine Baranski). book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p406
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