Shows · Saravá

Saravá

Opened 1979

140 performances

Musical, Revolution

Randy Graff, who was in the 1979 production.

Based on the Brazilian novel Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, the story follows a young woman in Bahia, Brazil, whose dissolute but passionate first husband dies. She remarries a respectable but dull pharmacist, only to have the ghost of her first husband return, forcing her to choose between wild passion and domestic security.

Music: Mitch Leigh
Lyrics: N. Richard Nash
Book: N. Richard Nash

Productions1 on Broadway

1979

Mark Hellinger TheatreBroadway Original, opened February 23, 1979, directed by Rick Atwell

140 performances

Saravá is a musical with a book and lyrics by N. Richard Nash and music by Mitch Leigh. The musical was based on the book Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Brazilian writer Jorge Amado, published in 1966.

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