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J.B.

ANTA Playhouse, (12/11/1958 - 10/24/1959)
Preview: Total Previews:
Opening:Dec 11, 1958   
Closing:Oct 24, 1959 Total Performances:364


Category: Play, Drama, Original, Broadway
Description: A play in two acts
Setting: A traveling circus which has been on the road for a long time.





by opening date


Theatre Owned / Operated by ANTA, Inc.

Produced by Alfred De Liagre, Jr.; Associate Producer: Joseph I. Levine

Written by Archibald MacLeish; Music by David Amram

Directed by Elia Kazan

Production Designed by Boris Aronson; Costume Design by Lucinda Ballard; Lighting Design by Tharon Musser; Assistant to Mr. Aronson: Lisa Jalowetz; Assistant to Miss Ballard: Florence Klotz

General Manager: C. Edwin Knill; Managing Director for the ANTA Theatre Louis A. Lotito

Production Stage Manager: Robert Downing; Stage Manager: Daniel S. Broun and Peter Hale; Assistant Stage Mgr: John Ragin

Press Representative: Ben Washer and Tom Trenkle; Advertising: Fred Golden


Opening Night Cast

Raymond Massey Mr. Zuss  
Christopher Plummer Nickles  
Nan Martin Sarah   
Lane Bradbury Jolly  
Bert Conway Bildad  
Ivor Francis Zophar  
Pat Hingle J. B.  
Ciri Jacobson Mary  
Clifton James First Roustabout  
Judith Lowry Mrs. Adams  
Miriam Merry Martin Rebecca  
Arnold Merritt David  
Candy Moore Ruth  
James Olson Second Roustabout  
Laura Pierpont Mrs. Murphy  
Ford Rainey Prompter  
Jeffrey Rowland Jonathan  
Fay Sappington Mrs. Lesure  
Andreas Voutsinas Eliphaz  
Janet Ward Girl  
Helen Waters Mrs. Botticelli  

Understudies: Lane Bradbury (Girl, Mary, Rebecca, Ruth), Ciri Jacobsen (Jolly), John Ragin (Nickles, Second Roustabout), Ford Rainey (J. B., Mr. Zuss), Herbert Ratner (Bildad, Eliphaz, Zophar, First Roustabout), Leora Thatcher (Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Botticelli, Mrs. Lesure, Mrs. Murphy), Janet Ward (Sarah).