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The Mambo Kings

 

 

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The Mambo Kings


Was to play at

Broadway Theater

Broadway Musical

Previews  July 20 2005
Opens
  August 18 2005

Will Not Open Not so good reviews during its June 2005 run in San Francisco forced either an expensive rework or decision not to come to Broadway. Producers decided not to make the trip

Producers
Daryl Roth | Jordan Roth

Creative
Oscar Hijuelos & Arne Glimcher book
Arne Glimcher lyrics
Carlos Franzetti music

Kevin Stites musical director
Sergio Trujillo choreographer
Arne Glimcher director

Ann Roth costume design
Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer lighting design
Riccardo Hernandez scenic design

Opening Night Cast
Albita | Jamie Camil | Justina Machado | Esai Morales | Christiane Noll | Cote de Pablo  | Dennis Staroselsky | David Alan Grier

There has been talk of The Mambo Kings coming to Broadway for at least a year. The show, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Mr Hijuelos, is now the second musical, after Lennon, to announce for early in the 2005 season. What better time to catch the summer tourists?

Well, it would be an even better time if The Mambo Kings had been able to stay to course and get to Broadway. The San Francisco run was in trouble from the get go. According to the New York Post's Michael Riedel, Jerry Mitchell, Jason Robert Brown and David Ives were going to be brought in to give the staging, score and book (respectively), a thorough going over. The Roth's, Messrs Daryl and Jordan, had apparent third thoughts and decided not to spring for the dough it would have cost to rework the show

Notes The 1992 film, also directed by Mr Glimcher, starred Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas as brothers Cesar and Nestor Castillo, who leave Cuba in 1949 to make it big in New York

 

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