The Mambo Kings
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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