The Goodbye Girl
Shows · The Goodbye Girl
When dancer Paula McFadden's boyfriend abandons her and sublets their apartment to struggling actor Elliot Garfield, they become reluctant roommates. Despite constant bickering, they gradually fall in love while Paula guards her bruised heart and Elliot endures a humiliating off-off-Broadway production of Richard III.
- Opened
- 1993
- Performances
- 188
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Megamusical
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1993 | Marquis Theatre Original. March 4, 1993 · Michael Kidd | 188 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 1 album held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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26 passages naming The Goodbye Girl, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Neil Simon adapted his film The Goodbye Girl as a musical (1993). book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p354
/The Goodbye Girl closed after only 188 performances. Bernadette Peters and Martin Short headed the cast on opening night, March 4, 1993. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p517
A rare misstep was costarring with Martin Short in 1994’s The Goodbye Girl, which proved just how elusive the magic of onstage chemistry can be. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p248
His only flop came with the musicalization of his movie The Goodbye Girl in 1993. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p317
Simon also wrote the libretto for the adaptation of The Goodbye Girl, like Chorus Line with music by Marvin Hamlisch. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p706
Kidd briefly returned from retirement in 1993 to take over the faltering The Goodbye Girl. All of his post—Li? Abner shows, strangely enough, were failures. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1097
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