- Performances: 1,420.
- Open / Close: August 10, 1986 – December 31, 1989
- Theater: The Marquis Theatre.
- Tony Awards: Nominated for 13 awards and won three – the two leads, Robert Lindsay and Maryanne Plunkett – and Gillian Gregory for choreography. The Tony Award performance by this cast (see below) is particularly notable!
- Fun Fact: As mentioned in the podcast, this was Gillian Gregory’s only Broadway show. He was primarily a choreographer for movies and television and his several of his most notable projects were movie adaptations of rock operas – The Who’s “Tommy” and Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” for example.
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As has been chronicled extensively on this podcast already, many older Broadway shows do NOT hold up very well over time. The ones that do – your “Guys and Dolls” or “Oklahomas” – still regularly get produced.
But “Me and My Girl” is a bit of an anomaly. I personally think it totally holds up at least as well as many of the oft-produced Golden Age musicals, even though it’s set in the 1930s. But it hardly ever gets staged these days.
One of central Virginia’s long-time stars, Larry Cook, played Bill Snibson, the roguish and rough-and-tumble south Londoner who discovers he’s actually an English lord, way back in 1991. Larry and I talk about our mutual admiration for this show and ponder why it isn’t popping up on stages still today.
In the podcast, I mistakenly say that the show was still running on Broadway when it was produced here in Richmond. However, it was still touring and regional theaters all over the country were having long-running hits with the fun and frivolous romp. Don’t you think modern audiences would enjoy the class conscious conflicts spurring the low-stakes tension in this show? I sure do!