 The show opened on Broadway on October 8, 1979, to rave reviews, and this time he did not throw success away.Rooney and Miller performed the show 1,208 times in New York and then toured with it for five years, including eight months in London.Co-star Miller recalls that Rooney "never missed a performance or a chance to ad-lib or read the lines the same way twice, if he even stuck to the script".