The target date for a Broadway opening has been pushed back a year, to the spring of 2000.
A year after the Broadway opening, already too old for the role, she left the cast.
Instead, it seemed like an out-of-town preview for a Broadway opening.
A planned Broadway opening was canceled after the production lost $4 million on the road.
And with at least 12 Broadway openings scheduled in the next three months, this could be the year to see a hot new show.
Extensive efforts to get it into shape for a Broadway opening failed, and the project was abandoned.
In a way, each first night is a party for this man, who has attended virtually every Broadway opening since the late 1920's.
The revised show proves to be a hit on its Broadway opening.
Thirty-eight years have passed since the Broadway opening, but through these young people the dances seem completely of the moment.
"I'm used to Broadway openings, but this was unbelievable," he said of the response.