Tootsie
Shows · Tootsie
Michael Dorsey is a talented but impossible New York actor whom no one will hire. In desperation, he disguises himself as a woman named Dorothy Michaels and lands a role in a Broadway show, becoming an overnight sensation. But as Dorothy, Michael discovers what it is like to be treated as a woman in the theatre world, and falls for his co-star Julie — who thinks he is her new best girlfriend.
- Opened
- 2019
- Performances
- 293
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Contemporary
Productions1 on Broadway
| 2019 | Original Theatre unknown. April 23, 2019 · Scott Ellis | 293 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Tootsie matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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3 passages naming Tootsie, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Gelbart kept America laughing for the better part of a half-century with television scripts—most famously for the first four seasons of M*A*S*H (1972–1976)—and movies including Oh, God! (1977, featuring George Burns) and Tootsie (1982, starring Dustin Hoffman). book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p296
Musicals like Tootsie and Mrs. Doubtfire (2021) have been received as trans-phobic by some. book:broadway-bodies-ryan-donovan-2023#p188
mostly small movie roles (Tootsie, Amadeus), missed opportunities book:today-in-history-musicals-today-in-history-stollenwerk-joe-1973-today-in-history#p61
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