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An Entertainment with Music

 
Booth Theatre , (10/30/1978 - 10/30/1978)
First Preview:Oct 17, 1978 Total Previews:16
Opening Date:Oct 30, 1978   
Closing Date:Oct 30, 1978 Total Performances:1

Category: Play, Play with music, Original, Broadway
Setting: Lady Celia's drawing room. The summer house.


Production Staff
Theatre Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization (Gerald Schoenfeld: Chairman; Bernard B. Jacobs: President)
Produced by Terry Allen Kramer, Harry Rigby, Hale Matthews and John Wulp
Originally presented by the WPA Theatre (Howard Ashman, Artistic Director; Kyle Renick, Managing Director)
Written by Edward Gorey; Book adapted by Stephen Currens; Music by David Aldrich; Lyrics by David Aldrich; Music orchestrated by David Aldrich; Musical Director: Martin Silvestri
Directed by Tony Tanner
Production Design by Edward Gorey; Lighting Design by Roger Morgan
General Manager: Jack Schlissel and Jay Kingwill; Company Manager: Alan Wasser
Production Stage Manager: Franklin Keysar; Assistant Stage Mgr: Beth Prevor
Assistant Conductor: Jeffrey Waxman
Scenery Supervised by Lynn Pecktal; Costumes Supervised by David Murin; General Press Representative: Henry Luhrman Associates; Press Representative: Anne Obert Weinberg and Terry M. Lilly; Photographer: Martha Swope; Advertising: Regis Albrecht and J. Walter Thompson; Furs by Ben Kahn Furs
Cast
Gemze de Lappe Mona
a maid
Tobias Haller Little Henry
a child
Julie Kurnitz Lady Celia
the hostess
Susan Marchand Ortenzia Caviglia
a singer
Dennis McGovern Jasper Ankle
an opera freak
John Michalski Hamish
a beautiful young man
Leon Shaw C. F. Earbrass
an author
June Squibb Mary Rosemarsh
a spinster
Sel Vitella Harold
a butler
Understudies: Meg Bussert (Mona, Ortenzia Caviglia), C.A. Hutton (C. F. Earbrass, Hamish, Harold), Rose Roffman (Lady Celia, Mary Rosemarsh) and Bill Stratton (Jasper Ankle, Little Henry)