The Broadway Theater League of Rhode Island presents C. Edwin Knill's and Martin Tahse's production of `` Fiorello!!

It was not presented in the United States until 1970, when a short-lived April production at the Phyllis Anderson Theatre off Broadway starred Barbara Harris as Jenny and Estelle Parsons as Begbick.

Since its original 1973 Broadway production, the musical has enjoyed professional productions in the West End, by opera companies, in a 2009 Broadway revival, and elsewhere, and it is a popular choice for regional groups.

This production transferred to Broadway on December 13, 2009, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones as Desiree and Angela Lansbury as Madame Armfeldt.

The 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in previews on November 24, 2009 and officially on December 13, 2009, with the same creative team.

In his review of the original 1973 Broadway production, Clive Barnes in the New York Times called the musical " heady, civilized, sophisticated and enchanting.

In his New York Times review of the 2009 Broadway production, Ben Brantley noted that " the expression that hovers over Trevor Nunn's revival ... feels dangerously close to a smirk ... It is a smirk shrouded in shadows.

( From the Broadway production )

A later US radio version by the Theatre Guild in 1947 featured Rathbone with Wendy Hiller and Catherine Rowan, his co-star from a contemporary Broadway production.

Guest continued with the production when it moved to Broadway in 1972.

She then reprised the role in the Broadway production from January 10 through November 12, 2006.

Bowie took the title role in the Broadway theatre production The Elephant Man, earning high praise for an expressive performance.

Blaine and Kaye reprise their roles from the 1950 Broadway production.

In an interview on March 3, 2011, Gerald Casale noted that he is " working on a script for a musical, a Devo musical " that would be aimed towards a live Broadway production.

On 9 February 1964, he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show with Georgia Brown who was playing Nancy in the Broadway production of Oliver !.

The Broadway production opened on April 4, 1971, directed by Harold Prince and Michael Bennett, and with choreography by Bennett.

Note: this is the original song list from the original Broadway production in 1971.

The casts of the Off Broadway production of Avenue Q in New York City and the Avenue Q National Tour in Dallas dedicated their May 28 performances to his memory, and the actors playing the Coleman role paid tribute to him from the stage at the performances ' conclusions.

Richard Burton received his third Tony Award nomination when he played his second Hamlet, his first under John Gielgud's direction, in 1964 in a production that holds the record for the longest run of the play in Broadway history ( 136 performances ).

John Gielgud directed Richard Burton in a Broadway production at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in 1964 – 5, the longest-running Hamlet in the U. S. to date.

He adapted it for a Broadway production in 1959 and an Oscar-winning feature film in 1962, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke.

With the success of Journey's End at home, Broadway producer Gilbert Miller acquired the rights to mount a New York production with an all-British cast headed by Colin Keith-Johnston as Stanhope and Derek Williams as Raleigh.

Cotten returned to Broadway in 1939, creating the role of C. K. Dexter Haven opposite Katharine Hepburn's Tracy Lord in the original production of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story.

In 1953 Cotten created the role of Linus Larrabee, Jr., in the original 1953 Broadway production of Sabrina Fair.

Schaffner earned two more Emmy awards for his work on the 1955 TV adaptation of the Broadway play, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, shown on the anthology series Ford Star Jubilee.

Spacey also earned another Tony nomination the same year, for his work in a Broadway production of The Iceman Cometh.

Opening on 24 November 1951 on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre, the play ran for 219 performances ( finishing on 31 May 1952 ) and Hepburn's debut on Broadway earned her a Theatre World Award.

After Hammerstein's death in 1960, Rodgers wrote both words and music for his first new Broadway project No Strings ( 1962, which earned two Tony Awards ).

In November 2008, she earned rave reviews as Gladys Bumps in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of the classical Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey on Broadway and garnered her third consecutive Tony nomination, this time for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

Her performances in the Broadway musical Black and Blue earned Brown a Tony Award, and the original cast recording won a Grammy Award.

The latter earned her a Tony Award as " Best Female Star of a Musical ", and a Grammy Award as Best Female Jazz Artist for her album, Blues on Broadway, featuring hits from the show.

) The play moved to Broadway, and Olmos earned a Tony Award nomination.

Her role in The Broadway Melody ( 1929 ) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

After 1990s roles in Broadway productions of Indiscretions and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( for which she earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress ), Turner moved to London in 2000 to star in a stage version of The Graduate.

Alexander's major break in acting came in 1967 when she played Eleanor Backman in the original production of Howard Sackler's The Great White Hope at Arena Stage in Washington, D. C. Like her co-star, James Earl Jones, she went on to play the part both on Broadway ( 1968 ), winning a Tony Award for her performance, and in the film version ( 1970 ), which earned her an Oscar nomination.

The 1982 Broadway production won him two Tony Awards, for Best Play and Best Actor in a Play, two Drama Desk Awards, for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Actor in a Play, and the Theatre World Award, and the film adaptation earned him an Independent Spirit Award nomination as Best Male Lead.

In the early 1950s, he had a string of memorable Broadway productions, and one of these, Picnic, earned him a Pulitzer Prize.

She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway and earned her numerous awards and accolades.

He earned a Tony Award nomination for his performance in Cabaret in its 1987 Broadway revival.

That same year she made her Broadway debut in Nowhere to Go But Up, which ran only two weeks but earned her good reviews and the Theatre World Award.

She earned her first break on Broadway with New Faces of 1968.

In 2001 Saturday Players launched a six month off off Broadway run of the show that earned critical acclaim and returning audience members.

The 2009 Broadway revival has earned the Tony Award for best revival and has also opened in London's West End.

It later moved to The Booth Theater on Broadway in 1979, and earned several awards.

Along with Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne, he wrote the opening to the 65th Tony Awards, " Broadway: It's Not Just for Gays Anymore ," which earned him his twelfth Emmy ( and first apart from The Daily Show ) in 2012 for Outstanding Music and Lyrics.

In 2002, Hairspray was adapted to a long-running Broadway musical, which itself was adapted to a hit musical film which earned more than $ 200 million worldwide.

According to The New York Times, operating costs soared far beyond the budget, and the " Broadway production has earned back, at best, 80 percent of the initial $ 13 million ".