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The Nerd   

 
Helen Hayes Theatre , (3/22/1987 - 4/10/1988)
First Preview:Mar 10, 1987 Total Previews:15
Opening Date:Mar 22, 1987   
Closing Date:Apr 10, 1988 Total Performances:441

Category: Play, Comedy, Original, Broadway
Setting: Terre Haute, Indiana. November 1981.


Production Staff
Theatre Owned / Operated by Donald Tick and Martin Markinson
Produced by Kevin Dowling, Joan Stein, Melvyn J. Estrin, Susan Rose, Gail Berman and Lynn Dowling; Produced in association with F. Harlan Batrus, Gina Rogak and George A. Schapiro; Produced by arrangement with Bruce Hyman and André Ptaszynski; Associate Producer: Gintare Sileika Everett, Allan Matthews and Yentl Productions
Originally produced by Milwaukee Repertory Company
Written by Larry Shue
Directed by Charles Nelson Reilly
Scenic Design by John Lee Beatty; Costume Design by Deborah Shaw; Lighting Design by Dennis Parichy; Sound Design by Timothy Helgeson; Monster costume designed by Andrew Benepe; Hair Design by Vito Mastrogiovanni
General Manager: Proscenium Services, Inc. and TheatrePop, Inc.; Company Manager: Susan Gustafson
Production Stage Manager: Robert T. Bennett; Stage Manager: Daniel R. Bauer
Casting: Deborah Brown; General Press Representative: Adrian Bryan-Brown, Reva Cooper and Josh Ellis; Advertising: Fisher / LeDonne / Wilner; Photographer: Gerry Goodstein
Cast
Mark Hamill Willum Cubbert
Robert Joy Rick Steadman
Peter Riegert Axel Hammond
Pamela Blair Clelia Waldgrave
Patricia Kalember
Broadway debut		 Tansy McGinnis
Wayne Tippit Warnock Waldgrave
Timmy Geissler Thor Waldgrave
Standby: Edward Edwards (Axel Hammond, Rick Steadman, Warnock Waldgrave, Willum Cubbert)
Understudy: Jeremy Cummins (Thor Waldgrave)