Saturday Night Fever (musical)

Infobox Musical
name= Saturday Night Fever
subtitle=


caption= Logo
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 Broadway
2004 West End revival
2009 Madrid
awards=

"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 on May 5 1998 at the London Palladium, where it ran for nearly two years. The original cast included Adam Garcia as Tony and Anita Louise Coombe 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 [http://www.albemarle-london.com/awards/AwardWinners.php?Award_Type=Laurence%20Olivier%20Awards&Year=1999] . A cast album was released by Polydor Records.

After twenty-seven previews, the Broadway production, with Phillips at the helm, opened on October 21 1999 at the Minskoff Theatre, where it ran for 501 performances. The cast included James Carpinello as Tony and Paige Price as Stephanie, with Orfeh as Annette, Paul Castree as Bobby C., and Bryan Batt as DJ Monty.

A London revival opened on July 6 2004 at the Apollo Victoria Theatre prior to a lengthy UK tour that extended into August 2006 [http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/3077/saturday-night-fever] . The cast included newcomer Stephane Anelli as Tony and Zoe Ebsworth as Stephanie, with Kym Marsh from the pop group Hear'Say as Annette and Shaun Williamson of the television series "EastEnders" as DJ Monty.

In 2009 a Spanish production will open at Teatro Coliseum in Madrid, produced by Stage Entertainment.

ongs

;Act I
* Stayin' Alive
* Boogie Shoes (Music and lyrics by Harry Casey and Richard Finch)
* Disco Inferno (Music and lyrics by Leroy Green and Ron Kersey)
* Night Fever
* Disco Duck (Music and lyrics by Rick Dees)
* More Than a Woman
* If I Can't Have You
* It's My Neighborhood
* You Should Be Dancing;Act II
* Jive Talkin'
* First and Last/Tragedy
* What Kind of Fool (Music and lyrics by Albhy Galuten and Barry Gibb)
* Nights on Broadway
* Night Fever (Reprise)
* Open Sesame (Music and lyrics by Ronald Bell)
* More Than a Woman
* Salsation (Music and lyrics by David Shire)
* Immortality
* How Deep Is Your Love

External links

* [http://www.nightfever.co.uk/london.htm Original London production website]
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* [http://www.fiebredelsabadonoche.es/ Original Madrid production website]