Shows · Nick & Nora
Nick & Nora
Opened 1991
9 performances
Musical, Megamusical
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 Bogart solved it, no one would care.
- Music
- Charles Strouse
- Lyrics
- Richard Maltby Jr.
- Book
- Arthur Laurents
Productions1 on Broadway
Nick & Nora is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr., and music by Charles Strouse. The plot involves witty and urbane high society couple Nick and Nora Charles, characters created by Dashiell Hammett in his novel The Thin Man, which inspired six films, a radio show, and a television series. In this version, the two are attempting to solve the murder of a bookkeeper on a film production in Hollywood. Crucially, the musical departs from the formula of previous incarnations, defined by the chemistry between Nick and Nora, by creating a subplot of marital woes and tensions between them. The show had a brief run of nine performances on Broadway in 1991, and was…
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