NICK & NORA - Full Show, Broadway 1991 (Joanna Gleason, Barry Bostwick, Christine Baranski)

NICK & NORA - Broadway, 1991 - First Time Online NICK & NORA played (I’m not kidding) 71 preview performances, a record maintained for twenty years until the 182 previews accumulated by SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK before its official premiere in 2011. Opening on December 8, 1991, NICK & NORA was considered an unspeakable disaster and quickly closed on December 15 after 9 regular performances. Uploaded for curiosity seekers, this video is the 67th preview of NICK & NORA, filmed at the Marquis Theatre on December 4, 1991. It was a wildly ambitious musical that blended dialogue and score almost entirely. Spoken words often transitioned, mid-sentence, into sung lyrics, presenting a concept of how real life might sound if it was a musical itself. An exciting strategy, but it tended to withhold buttons that would normally designate the endings of songs. Frustrated audiences, denied the cues provided by more traditional structures, didn’t know when to clap.