Two Gentlemen of Verona
Shows · Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two Gentlemen of Verona is a rock musical, with a book by John Guare and Mel Shapiro, lyrics by Guare and music by Galt MacDermot, based on the Shakespeare comedy of the same name.
- Opened
- 1971
- Performances
- 627
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Won the Tony Award for Best Musical, 1972.
Productions4 on Broadway
| 1958 | Phoenix Theatre Original. March 18, 1958 · Michael Langham · predates this show | 28 performances |
| 1971 | St. James Theatre Revival. December 1, 1971 · Mel Shapiro | 614 performances · 1 Tony wins |
| 1971 | Transfer Theatre unknown. | |
| 1973 | Transfer Theatre unknown. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 2 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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39 passages naming Two Gentlemen of Verona, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
In 1971 Joseph Papp then brought his musical success Two Gentlemen of Verona from Central Park to this theatre, where it stayed for 613 performances, winning a Tony Award for best musical. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p281
Two Gentlemen of Verona, winner of the book award, carried off the award for Best Musical. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p554
Two Gentlemen of Verona, a rock version of Shakespeare that transferred from the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park to a successful run on Broadway, beating out Stephen Sondheim's Follies for the Tony Award in 1972. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p157
MacDermot's rock musical scores include Hair (1968), Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971), Dude (1972), and Via Galactica (1972); the first two succeeded while the latter two failed. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p244
No, No, Nanette (1971), Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971), and Raisin (1973), and far shorter than superhits Pippin (1972) and Grease (1972). book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p561
Two Gents was no small-scale, chamber-rock affair, and it happily rollicked its way down to 44th Street. The adaptation was very much of its time, which is to say that we've never seen a revival and it’s just as well. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p962
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