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The Suicide   

 
ANTA Playhouse , (10/09/1980 - 11/30/1980)
First Preview:Sep 22, 1980 Total Previews:20
Opening Date:Oct 09, 1980   
Closing Date:Nov 30, 1980 Total Performances:60

Category: Play, Comedy, Original, Broadway
Setting: A Moscow tenement. The 1920s.


Production Staff
ANTA Managing Director: Alfred De Liagre, Jr.
Produced by The Aurora StageWing, Inc., Bill Dyer and Dick De Benedictis; Associate Producer: R. Tyler Gatchell, Jr. and Peter Neufeld
Originally produced by Trinity Square Repertory Company (Adrian Hall, Director)
Written by Nikolai Erdman; Translated by George Genereux, Jr. and Jacob Volkov; Incidental music by Richard Weinstock; Book adapted by Trinity Square Repertory Company (Adrian Hall, Director) and Jonas Jurasas; Featuring songs with lyrics by Bill Dyer
Directed by Jonas Jurasas; Movement by Ara Fitzgerald
Scenic Design by Santo Loquasto; Costume Design by Santo Loquasto; Lighting Design by F. Mitchell Dana; Sound Design by Jack Shearing; Hair Design by J. Roy Helland; Make-Up Design by J. Roy Helland
Executive Producer: James L. Stewart and Rich Irvine; General Manager: Gatchell & Neufeld, Ltd.; Associate Gen. Mgr: Douglas C. Baker; Company Manager: Mark Andrews
Production Stage Manager: Peter Lawrence; Stage Manager: Jim Woolley; Assistant Stage Mgr: Sarah Whitham; Technical Coordinator: Arthur Siccardi
Musician: Bill Moersch and Andy Seligson; Music Consultant: Roman Romanov; Music Contractor: John Monaco
General Press Representative: Jeffrey Richards Associates; Literary Consultant: Michael Henry Heim; Photographer: Peter Cunningham; Casting: T.N.I. Casting, Julie Hughes and Barry Moss; Advertising: Ash / LeDonne; Poster Design by Gilbert Lesser
Cast
Derek Jacobi Semyon Semyonovich Podsekalnikov
Senya, the would-be suicide
Grayson Hall Serafima Ilyinishna
Senya's mother-in-law
John Heffernan Aristarkh Dominikovich Grand-Skubik
an intellectual
Angela Pietropinto Maria Lukyanovna
Masha, Senya's wife
Susan Edwards Vtoraya
a gypsy woman (violin)
Laura Esterman Cleopatra Maximovna
a beauty who has seen better days
Clarence Felder Alexander Petrovich Kalabushkin
the upstairs neighbor
Cheryl Giannini Tretya
a gypsy woman (tambourine)
Carol Mayo Jenkins Margarita Ivanovna
Senya's close and dear friend
John Christopher Jones Yegor Timofeevich
a Marxist
David Patrick Kelly Pervy
a gypsy man (mandolin)
A Young Boy
Derek Meader Vtoroy
a gypsy man (violin)
William Myers Father Yelpidy
a priest
Mary Lou Rosato Raisa Filippovna
Cleopatra's rival
David Sabin Waldemar Arsenyevich Pugachov
a butcher
Leda Siskind Pervaya
a gypsy woman (balalaika)
Woman with young boy
Chip Zien Victor Victorovich
a writer
Jeff Zinn Trety
a gypsy man (guitar)
Standby: Russell Horton (Semyon Semyonovich Podsekalnikov)
Understudies: Susan Edwards (Raisa Filippovna), Cheryl Giannini (Cleopatra Maximovna, Serafima Ilyinishna), Christopher Loomis (Alexander Petrovich Kalabushkin, Father Yelpidy, Waldemar Arsenyevich Pugachov), Derek Meader (Victor Victorovich), Polly Pen (Margarita Ivanovna, Pervaya, Tretya, Vtoraya, Woman with young boy), John Seeman (A Young Boy, Pervy, Trety, Vtoroy, Yegor Timofeevich) and Leda Siskind (Maria Lukyanovna)
1981 Tony Award® Best Scenic Design
 Santo Loquasto [nominee]
1981 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actor in a Play
 Derek Jacobi [nominee]