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A Far Country   

 
Music Box Theatre , (4/04/1961 - 11/25/1961)
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Opening Date:Apr 04, 1961   
Closing Date:Nov 25, 1961 Total Performances:271

Category: Play, Drama, Original, Broadway
Setting: The office and anteroom of Sigmund Freud's modest flat in Vienna, where he lived and worked for more than forty years. June 4, 1938 and just before the turn of the century.


Production Staff
Theatre Owned / Operated by Irving Berlin and J. J. Shubert
Produced by Roger L. Stevens and Joel Schenker; Associate Producer: Lyn Austin
Written by Henry Denker
Directed by Alfred Ryder
Scenic Design by Donald Oenslager; Costume Design by Ann Roth; Lighting Design by Donald Oenslager; Assistant to Mr. Oenslager: Klaus Holm
Company Manager: Arthur Waxman
Production Stage Manager: Gerald O'Brien; Stage Manager: Wayne Carson
Press Representative: Merle Debuskey and Seymour Krawitz; Casting: Terry Fay
Cast
Steven Hill Sigmund Freud (older)
Sigmund Freud
Kim Stanley Elizabeth von Ritter
Sam Wanamaker Dr. Joseph Breuer
Lili Darvas Amalie Freud
Salome Jens Martha Bernays Freud (older)
Martha Bernays Freud
Patrick O'Neal Frederick Wohlmuth
Wayne Carson The Nazi
Eda Reiss Merin Kathy
James Noble Gordon Douglas
Ellen Weston Dolfi Freud
Standbys: Joan Potter (Elizabeth von Ritter) and Paul E. Richards (Dr. Joseph Breuer, Sigmund Freud, Sigmund Freud (older))
Understudies: Wayne Carson (Frederick Wohlmuth, Gordon Douglas), Eda Reiss Merin (Amalie Freud) and Avra Petrides (Dolfi Freud, Kathy, Martha Bernays Freud, Martha Bernays Freud (older))
1962 Tony Award® Best Actress in a Play
 Kim Stanley [nominee]