Gigi Revival
Ages: 10+
Opened: April 8, 2015Closing: June 21, 2015
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Gigi - 2015 - Broadway History , Info & More
Neil Simon Theatre (Broadway)
250 W. 52nd St. New York, NY 10019
Set in the magical world of La Belle Epoque in turn-of-the-century Paris, GIGI is a timeless romantic comedy about a young woman groomed in the custom of her family to be a companion to a bored, wealthy playboy, until the two unexpectedly realize this is in fact true love.
This year marks the 40th Anniversary of the debut of Gigi on Broadway. Lerner and Loewe's Tony Award-winning score was first heard in the 9-time Academy Award-winning Best Picture of the same name, directed by Vincente Minnelli. The movie, which was the last of the classic MGM musicals, was based on the Broadway play by Anita Loos and the popular novella by Colette.
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved musical GIGI will return to Broadway in a production directed by Tony Award-nominee Eric D. Schaeffer (Follies), in a new adaptation by acclaimed British playwright and Emmy-nominated screenwriter Heidi Thomas ("Cranforde," "Upstairs Downstairs," "Call the Midwife".)
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'Gigi' theater review
5 / 10
The stage version of the 1958 MGM movie musical "Gigi" is a good example of what the late composer Mary Rodgers called a "why musical" -- a tolerable but ultimately pointless adaptation that adds little to, and is inferior than, the source upon which it is based...Efforts to flesh out Gigi and her beau Gaston come off as labored...As directed by Eric Schaeffer ("Newsies"), the production has an elegant look and lively movement but nevertheless feels empty and stalled. Hudgens gives the sort of sincere but clumsy performance you'd expect to see in, well, a high school musical. But all things considered, she has been given a near-impossible task of injecting life and charm into what is essentially a two-and-a-half-hour slog.
Vanessa Hudgens in Gigi: EW stage review
9 / 10
Thanks to a revised book by Call The Midwife's Heidi Thomas, this modernized Gigi comes bearing extra sass. Instead of feeling distressed when Gaston insults her new gown ("That collar is ridiculous! It makes you look like a giraffe with a goiter"), this Gigi snaps back at his every insult ("The door's over there. And don't forget your chocolates. I won't be able to swallow them because of this terrible goiter", she quips), and then bids him adieu with all but a kick in the head. Every moment Hudgens isn't onstage, you long for her return-not only for her dramatic talents, but also because she wears Catherine Zuber's beautiful costumes so breathtakingly well.
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Gigi has had 2 productions including Washington, DC (Regional) which opened in 2015 and Broadway which opened in 2015.
Gigi has been nominated for the Outstanding Costume Design category at the Drama Desk Awards. The nomination was for Catherine Zuber's work on the show.
Gigi has won the Outstanding Costume Design award at the Drama Desk Awards for Catherine Zuber.
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