Never Gonna Dance
Broadway Musical
Previews October 27 2003
Opened December 4 2003
Closed February 15 2004 Run 43
previews | 85 performances
Running Time 2 hrs 30 mins | 1
intermission
Tickets $71.25 to $101.25
Prices do not include any taxes,
service charges or other charges
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Creative Jeffrey Hatcher book
| Jerome Kern music | Dorothy Fields, Ira Gershwin, Oscar
Hammerstein II, Johnny Mercer, Otto Harbach & Jimmy McHugh lyrics
| Jerry Mitchell choreographer | Michael Grief director
Opening Night Cast Noah Racey |
Nancy Lemenager | Karen Ziemba | Peter Gerety |
Ron Orbach | Peter Bartlett | David Pittu | Deborah Leamy | Diedre Goodwin
| Philip LeStrange | Eugene Fleming
Synopsis One of our
favorite -- if not most favorite -- Astaire-Rogers musicals is
reincarnated on Broadway as Never Gonna Dance, the title
taken from one of our favorite -- if not most favorite -- tunes in
the movie. According to the press release: "The story of Never
Gonna Dance begins with John 'Lucky' Garnett, a professional
dancer, coming to New York in order to prove his worth to his
fiancee’s father by attempting to earn $25,000 by any means except
dancing Inspired by the energy and rhythms of the city, he of course
can’t keep still, and goes on to dance his way through hilarious
adventures with his fine new romance, the dance teacher, Penny
Carroll"
Notes Never Gonna Dance
is based on the 1936 flick Swing Time with an at-their-peaks
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire hoofing it for all to enjoy. Directed
by George Stevens the tuner featured a very young Betty Furness and
one of our all time faves, Eric Blore. The original film included a
'based on a story by' credit for Erwin Gelsey |
