Sweet Smell of Success: The Musical

Sweet Smell of Success is a Broadway musical created in 2002 by Marvin Hamlisch, Craig Carnelia and John Guare. It was directed by Nicholas Hytner. The musical, based on the 1957 movie of the same name, opened on March 14, 2002 at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway. It closed on June 15, 2002 after 109 performances and 18 previews. The show starred John Lithgow as J.J. Hunsecker, and Brian d'Arcy James as Sidney Falcone. Sweet Smell garnered 7 T... more

Sweet Smell of Success is a Broadway musical created in 2002 by Marvin Hamlisch, Craig Carnelia and John Guare. It was directed by Nicholas Hytner. The musical, based on the 1957 movie of the same name, opened on March 14, 2002 at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway. It closed on June 15, 2002 after 109 performances and 18 previews. The show starred John Lithgow as J.J. Hunsecker, and Brian d'Arcy James as Sidney Falcone. Sweet Smell garnered 7 Tony Award nominations including Best Musical. John Lithgow received the show's only Tony Award, winning Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical. Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America. It’s New York, 1952. Welcome to Broadway, the glamour capital of the universe. JJ Hunsecker rules it all with his daily gossip column in the New York Globe, syndicated to sixty million readers across America. JJ has the goods on everyone, from the President to the latest starlet. And everyone feeds JJ scandal, from J. Edgar Hoover and Senator Joe McCarthy... less