Wonderland
Shows · Wonderland
A modern retelling of Alice in Wonderland, where a young New York schoolteacher named Alice follows the White Rabbit into a fantastical underground world beneath Central Park. She encounters a mad tea party, a tyrannical Queen of Hearts, and must find her inner strength to defeat the forces of chaos and return home to her daughter.
- Opened
- 2011
- Performances
- 33
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Productions2 on Broadway
| 1905 | Majestic Theatre Original. October 24, 1905 · predates this show | 73 performances |
| 2011 | Revival Theatre unknown. April 17, 2011 · Gregory Boyd | 33 performances |
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 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Wonderland matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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13 passages naming Wonderland, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
In June, 1982, a musical called Play Me A Country Song had a very brief run here; and in December of that year, Eva Le Gallienne revived her adaptation of Alice in Wonderland (co-authored with Florida Friebus) for a brief run. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p220
reopened as Wonderland, January 1913; renamed the New York Theatre, 1913; opened as Loew’s New York, 1915. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p405
Universal also went looking for a black family musical, plunging on Mike Nichols’s Alice [1978], which starred Debbie Allen in an alcoholic Wonderland and shuttered ignominiously in Philadelphia. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p211
There have been numerous musical adaptations of Carroll’s Alice stories, including a number of Off- and Off-Off-Broadway versions such as Alice with Kisses (1964; closed in previews but memorialized with its window card tacked on the wall of Max Bialystock’s office in the 1967 film The Producers); Alice in Wonderland (… book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p262
His Wonderland (2011) was a contemporary take on Lewis B. Carroll’s 1865 novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and his most recent Broadway musical Bonnie & Clyde (2011) took place in the 1930s. book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p373
Her first off-Broadway production was Alice in Wonderland (1971), which won an Obie Award for her costumes. book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p407
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