1981 · U.S.A.
David Leon, Mitch Weissman, Tom Teeley, Ralph Castelli, Christina Applegate, Lauren Peterson, Gina Gershon, Sally Helppie, Elaine May, Mike Nichols.
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"The Music! The Magic! The Total Experience!"
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ReplyDeleteAt a then phenomenal 1,000+ performances (mostly at the Winter Garden Theatre with five final months at the Lunt-Fontanne and another two at the Palace - it moved to make way for the also filmed ZOOT SUIT and successful revivals of PETER PAN with Sandy Duncan and OKLAHOMA! respectively) from May 26, 1977 to October 17, 1979, BEATLEMANIA was the fore-runner of a number of so-called "jukebox musicals" and remains, to date, the most successful of the stage shows seeking to translate the Beatles' musical canon to the stage.
Conceived and co-produced by famed Broadway lighting designer Jules Fisher (who got another Tony nomination for lighting the show), BEATLEMANIA (some felt cynically, but undeniably successfully) offered four Beatles look-alikes doing a multi-media concert that covered each of the periods of the Beatles careers with artful projections putting the music in the context of the time the music was introduced.