Later Productions
Despite the popular success, the musical was not signed by a theatrical leasing company for stock or amateur performances after its initial run. Performances between 1936 and 1948 were negotiated by the producers Max Gordon and Sam Harris.
In 1946, the St. Louis Municipal Opera used the production arrangements, but failed to return them to the Music Box Theatre. Jubilee became a lost show. It was not produced for 40 years.
In 1985, Bill Tynes, producer of The New Amsterdam Theatre Company, hired Larry Moore to reconstruct the show for his 1986 series. Tynes specialized in producing classic musicals in concert at The Town Hall in New York. He intended to use the concert presentation for a backers' audition, hoping to generate financial support for a major revival of the show.
The reconstructed musical opened in concert version in March 1986 at The Town Hall, staged by James Brennan, with a cast that included Paula Laurence as The Queen,Robert Fitch as the King, Reed Jones as the Prince, Alyson Reed as Karen O'Kane, Carole Shelley as Eva Standing, Patrick Quinn as Eric Dare, Rebecca Luker, and Roderick Cook as the Prime Minister.
The show has been produced twice by Ian Marshall Fisher's "Lost Musicals In Concert" series in London. The second production, using the BBC Orchestra, performed in November 1999 at Her Majesty's Theatrewas broadcast in December 1999 by the BBC Radio-3.
On October 10, 1998, a concert version was staged at Carnegie Hall, New York City, for the benefit of the Gay Men's Health Crisis. Directed by Herbert Ross, with choreography by Danny Daniels, Lynne Taylor-Corbett and Pierre Dulaine, the cast included Bea Arthur as The Queen, Tyne Daly as Eva Standing, Sandy Duncan as Karen O'Kane, Michael Jeter as The King, Alice Ripley as The Princess, Stephen Spinella as Eric Dare, Bob Paris as Mowgli, and Philip Bosco as Prime Minister. The New York theatre company "Musicals Tonight!" presented a staged concert in October 2004.
The 1986 reconstructed Jubilee will play for five weeks from the 13th of June 2012 at the Tabard Theatre in Chiswick, London. This production will be produced by AlmostNormalltd and will be the first full professional staging of the musical in the United Kingdom.
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