Jerry Springer - The Opera Delays Broadway Bow Until 2006
by Broadway Staff • Nov 17, 2004
The Broadway production of Jerry Springer - The Opera is being delayed. The tuner, which was scheduled to open on the Great White Way on October 20, 2005, is now aiming for a New York berth in the spring of 2006. The show's scheduled tryout at San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre has also been pushed back to a future season "owing to creative team availability issues," a production spokesperson told Broadway.com.
Jerry Springer - The Opera is an opera based on America's most lurid talk show and the U.S. host who brought worldwide television audiences programs entitled: "Pregnant by a Transsexual," "Here Come the Hookers," and "I Refuse to Wear Clothes." The show features music by Richard Thomas and book and lyrics by Thomas and Stewart Lee, who also directs.
The show was a hit at the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was then chosen by new National Theatre Artistic Director Nicholas Hytner to be part of his first season at the helm of the company. Headlined by Michael Brandon as Springer, the musical opened to rave reviews at the National's Lyttelton Theatre on April 29, 2003. It completed a sold-out extended run there on September 30, 2003 and then transferred to the Cambridge Theatre in the West End, where it is currently running.
Jerry Springer - The Opera is an opera based on America's most lurid talk show and the U.S. host who brought worldwide television audiences programs entitled: "Pregnant by a Transsexual," "Here Come the Hookers," and "I Refuse to Wear Clothes." The show features music by Richard Thomas and book and lyrics by Thomas and Stewart Lee, who also directs.
The show was a hit at the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was then chosen by new National Theatre Artistic Director Nicholas Hytner to be part of his first season at the helm of the company. Headlined by Michael Brandon as Springer, the musical opened to rave reviews at the National's Lyttelton Theatre on April 29, 2003. It completed a sold-out extended run there on September 30, 2003 and then transferred to the Cambridge Theatre in the West End, where it is currently running.
Jerry Springer - The Opera received the 2003 Olivier, Critic's Circle Award and Evening Standard Awards.