Beatlemania (musical)

Beatlemania
Broadway Playbill cover
MusicThe Beatles
LyricsThe Beatles
BookBob Gill, Robert Rabinowitz, Lynda Obst
BasisThe life and music of the Beatles
Productions1977 Broadway

Beatlemania was a Broadway musical revue focused on the music of the Beatles as it related to the events and changing attitudes of the tumultuous 1960s. A "rockumentary," advertised as "Not the Beatles, but an incredible simulation,"[1] it ran from May 1977 to October 1979[2] for a total of 1,006 performances.

  1. ^ "Four Young Musicians to Simulate Beatles," New York Times (April 5, 1977).
  2. ^ Itzkoff, Dave. "ARTSBEAT; Beatles Concert Show Coming to Broadway," New York Times (May 9, 2013).