Swing!
Shows · Swing!
Three fast flops followed. High Society (4/27/98; 144 performances) was an inept theatricalization of the Cole Porter film. The Civil War (4/22/99; 61 performances) was Frank Wildhorn’s decidedly ersatz take on what could have been a moving reflection on an especially tragic period of American history. Instead, it was neither a real musical nor a concert. Swing! (12/9/99; 461 performances) might have fit more comfort…
- Opened
- 1999
- Performances
- 461
- Type
- Revue
- Era
- Modern
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1999 | St. James Theatre Original. December 9, 1999 · Jerry Zaks | 461 performances |
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Recordings 10 albums held
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4 passages naming Swing!, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Charles Isherwood in Variety found the revue “sexy and satisfying” with its “dazzling” dancers, and he was glad to note that with Tango Argentino and the upcoming Broadway openings of Swing! and Contact (which had opened Off-Broadway in the fall and would reopen later in the season for a Broadway run) the theatre seaso… book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p389
Swing! isn’t to be confused with Alfred Uhry and Robert Waldman’s surreal 1980 musical Swing, which closed during its pre-Broadway tryout. book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p402
Dance also played heavily in the 1999–2000 season. Shows like Swing! and Riverdance (the Irish step-dancing extravaganza) were plotless, dance-driven evenings. book:a-history-of-the-american-musical-theatre-no-business-like-nathaniel-hurwitz-tay#p279
Other: Saturday Night Fever; Swing!; Squonk; Tango Argentino; Contact; Riverdance. book:ever-after-the-last-years-of-musical-theater-and-beyond-singer-barry-1957-new-yo#p336
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