Welcome to the Club

About the show

Welcome to the Club is a 1989 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Cy Coleman. Set in a New York City jail for alimony violators, the musical was directed by Peter Mark Schifter and opened at the Music Box Theatre on April 13, 1989. Poor reviews led the production to close on April 22, after only twelve performances. The New York Times deemed the musical "embarrassingly out of touch with the present-day realities of men, women, sex, marriage and divorce", with limited praise given to Coleman's "inconsistent" score. Despite flopping at the box office, the musical garnered two Tony nominations: Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Scott Wentworth) and Best Direction of a Musical (Schifter). In her Broadway debut, actress Sally Mayes won a 1989 Theatre World award.