The musical opened in previews at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway 8 March 2010, with an official opening 8 April, after an out-of-town tryout in Chicago at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts from 13 November 2009 to 10 January 2010.
In the stage musical, Wednesday was aged to about 18 years old, while Pugsley was kept as a young child.