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That Championship Season

Booth Theatre , (9/14/1972 - 4/21/1974)

Category: Play, Original, Broadway

Setting: 1973. The Coach's house, somewhere in the Lackawanna Valley.

Comments: "A man gets tied up to the ground / He gives the world its saddest sound, / Its saddest sound." --Paul Simon

Production Staff
Theatre Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization (Executive Directors: Irving Goldman, Bernard B. Jacobs, Gerald Schoenfeld)
Produced by The New York Shakespeare Festival (Joseph Papp, Producer); Associate Producer: Bernard Gersten
Written by Jason Miller
Directed by A. J. Antoon
Scenic Design by Santo Loquasto; Costume Design by Theoni V. Aldredge; Lighting Design by Ian Calderon; Assistant to Mr. Loquasto: William Mickley
NYSF General Manager: David Black; General Manager: Eugene Wolsk and Emanuel Azenberg; Company Manager: Edmonstone Thompson, Jr.
NYSF Production Manager: Andrew Mihok; NYSF Technical Director: Mervyn Haines, Jr.; Production Stage Manager: Ron Abbott; Assistant Stage Mgr: Joseph Kavanaugh
Musical Coordinator: Herbert Harris
NYSF General Press Representative: Merle Debuskey; NYSF Resident Press Representative: Robert Ullman; Press Representative: Faith Geer; NYSF Casting Director: Vincent Gugleotti Jr.; Advertising: Don Josephson and The Blaine Thompson Company; Assistant to the Producer: Gail Merrifield; Consultant to the Producer: Novella Nelson; Graphic Designer: Susan Frank and Larry Frank; Photographer: George E. Joseph

Cast

Understudies: Joe Mascolo (Phil Romano), Ron McClarty (George Sikowski) and Bernie McInerney (James Daley, Tom Daley)

1973 Tony Award^® Best Play
	Written by Jason Miller; Produced by The New York Shakespeare Festival (Joseph Papp, Producer) [winner]
1973 Tony Award^® Best Actor in Play
	Performer: Paul Sorvino [nominee]
1973 Tony Award^® Best Scenic Design
	Santo Loquasto [nominee]
1973 Tony Award^® Best Lighting Design
	Ian Calderon [nominee]
1973 Tony Award^® Best Direction of a Play
	A. J. Antoon [winner]
1973 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
	Written by Jason Miller [winner]
1972 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Set Design
	Scenic Design by Santo Loquasto [winner]
1972 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Performance
	Performer: Charles Durning, Walter McGinn, Michael McGuire, Richard A. Dysart and Paul Sorvino [winner]
1972 Drama Desk Award Most Promising Playwright
	Written by Jason Miller [winner]
1972 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director
	Directed by A. J. Antoon [winner]