Little Theatre, (6/10/1982 - 5/19/1985)

Category: Play, Original, Broadway
Description: Act 1: The International Stud. Act 2: Fugue in a Nursery. Act 3: Widows and Children First!
Setting: Backstage and the bar of the "International Stud" nightclub; Arnold & Ed's respective apartments; various rooms of Ed's farmhouse; a bench in the park below Arnold's apartment.

Opening Night Production Credits 

Theatre Owned / Operated by Donald Tick and Martin Markinson

Produced by Kenneth Waissman, Martin Markinson, Lawrence Lane and John Glines; Produced in association with BetMar (Betty Lee Hunt and Maria Cristina Pucci) and Donald Tick; Associate Producer: Howard Perloff

World Premiere in 1978 at LaMama Experimental Theatre Club; Originally produced by The Glines (John Glines, Co-founder & Artistic Director; Lawrence Lane, Managing Director)

Written by Harvey Fierstein; Incidental music by Ada Janik; Musical Director: Ned Levy; Music arranged by Ned Levy

Directed by Peter Pope; Assistant Director: Judy Thomas

Stage Design by Bill Stabile; Costume Design by Mardi Philips; Lighting Design by Scott Pinkney; Sound Design by Richard Fitzgerald; Hair Design by Andre Tavernise

General Manager: Theatre Now, Inc. and Edward H. Davis

Production Stage Manager: Herb Vogler; Technical Supervisor: Jeremiah J. Harris; Assistant Stage Mgr: Billie McBride

Keyboard understudy: Scott Oakley

Press Representative: Hunt / Pucci Associates; Casting: Hughes / Moss Casting; Advertising: Serino, Coyne & Nappi

Harvey Fierstein	Arnold Beckoff
Court Miller	Ed
Susan Edwards	Lady Blues
Estelle Getty	Mrs. Beckoff
Paul Joynt	Alan
Fisher Stevens	David
Diane Tarleton	Laurel

Standbys: Richard DeFabees (Arnold Beckoff), Peter Ratray (Ed).

Understudies: Susan Edwards (Laurel), Sylvia Kauders (Mrs. Beckoff), Christopher Stryker (Alan, David), Diane Tarleton (Lady Blues).