Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Source: Play by Ed Graczyk (1976)
Premiere: 18 February 1982
Theater: Martin Beck Theater
Run: 52 Shows (18 February to 4 April)
Note: The Wikipedia page states the title should not be confused with the country-western, sausage magnate Jimmy Dean. That the play is really about James Dean. This is very funny. I never once was confused on that point.
The Cher Show
Premiere: Official Premiere December 3, 2018
Theater: Neil Simon Theatre
Closed: August 18, 2019
Cher Scholar’s Blog Posts:
- The Broadway Show’s Opening Dates (September 2017)
- The Cher Show Hits Chicago (June 2018)
- The Cher Show on Broadway (January 2019)
- The Cher Show on Broadway, Part 2 (January 2019)
- Broadway’s Cher Show Holding Its Own (June 2019)
- Cher Show Ends on Broadway But Biopics Continue (August 2019)
(Covid was coming in a few months anyway to shut-down Broadway. That this show went on to live as a traveling show in the US and UK speaks to it’s worth.)
Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cher_Show_(musical)
UK Traveling Show Run, “The Cher Show, A Musical”
April 2022 to April 2023
Cher Scholar comparing the programs (June 2023)
US Traveling Show Run, “The Cher Show National Tour”
November 2023 – Ongoing
Dark Lady
Premiere: TBD
Theater: TBD, aimed at Off-Broadway
Both the Cher Planet and Cher World Facebook have come up with a stand-in Playbill program.
Original story: Mike Sheedy
Executive producer: Ken Davenport’s Davenport Theatrical Enterprises
Presentation cast: Rashidra Scott (Sunset Blvd.), Alysha Umphress (On the Town), Jasmine Forsberg (Six), Colin Bradbury (BOOP! The Musical), Davis Wayne (The Outsiders), Brandon Burks (Gypsy), DeMarius R. Copes (Elf), Jacob Dickey (Old Friends), Ninako Donville (Pirates! The Penzance Musical), Chavon Hampton, Amanda LaMotte (Once Upon a Mattress), Tatiana Lofton (Pirates! The Penzance Musical), Kristen Piro (Spamalot), Julio Rey (Lempicka), Kirsten Scott (Suffs), and Scarlett Walker (Carousel).
Story: “Set in the American South at the turn of the century, Sheedy’s story follows Queen, “a young gypsy who travels in a wagon train with her fortune-teller mother, her preacher father, and her two best friends—a free-spirited blonde and a fiery, fiddle-playing redhead. After receiving an ominous and foreboding fortune of events to come, Queen is forced to make a devastating decision that alters the course of her future.”
Directed and choreographed: Sara Edward
Orchestrations, arrangements, and music supervision: Sonny Paladino
