Saturday Night Fever (musical)
| Saturday Night Fever | |
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| Music | Bee Gees |
| Lyrics | Bee Gees |
| Book |
Nan Knighton Arlene Phillips Paul Nicholas Robert Stigwood |
| Basis |
Nik Cohn's 1975 New York Magazine article "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night" and 1977 film Saturday Night Fever |
| Productions | 1998 West End 1999 Cologne 1999 Broadway 2000 UK Tour 2001 US Tour 2001 Buenos Aires 2001 Utrecht 2001 Italian Tour 2002 Scandinavian Tour 2002 US Tour 2003 UK Tour 2003 Seoul 2003 Mexico City 2003 US Tour 2003 Tokyo 2004 Australian/Asian Tour 2004 Las Vegas 2004 German Tour 2004 West End 2004 Seoul 2004 Finnish Tour 2004 Scandinavian Tour 2005 UK tour 2005 Athens 2007 Asian Tour 2008 Johannesburg 2009 Madrid 2011 Royal Caribbean 2012 Dutch Tour 2012 Milan 2013 Frankfurt 2014 Prague 2014 UK Tour 2015 Asian Tour 2016 Melbourne 2016 Pretoria 2016 Milan 2017 Paris 2017 Copenhagen 2017 US Tour |
Saturday Night Fever is a musical with a book by Nan Knighton (in collaboration with Arlene Phillips, Paul Nicholas, and Robert Stigwood) and music and lyrics by the Bee Gees.
Based on Nik Cohn's 1975 New York Magazine article "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night" and Norman Wexler's 1977 screenplay it inspired, it focuses on Tony Manero, a Brooklyn youth whose weekend is spent at the local discotheque. There he luxuriates in the admiration of the crowd and a growing relationship with Stephanie Mangano, and can temporarily forget the realities of his life, including a dead-end job in a paint store and his gang of deadbeat friends. In an effort to make it a family-friendly show, many of the film's darker elements, including references to racial conflict, drug use, and violence, were eliminated from the plot.
Directed and choreographed by Phillips, the £4 million stage adaptation premiered in the West End on 5 May 1998 at the London Palladium, and closed on 26 February 2000. The original cast included Adam Garcia as Tony and Anita Louise Combe as Stephanie. Laurence Olivier Award nominations went to Garcia for Best Actor in a Musical, Phillips for Best Theatre Choreographer, and the production for Best New Musical [1]. A cast album was released by Polydor Records.
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