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Serious Money

Royale Theatre, (2/9/1988 - 2/20/1988)
Preview:Jan 20, 1988 Total Previews:21
Opening:Feb 9, 1988   
Closing:Feb 20, 1988 Total Performances:15


Category: Play, Satire, Original, Broadway
Setting: London and New York. Between October 1986 and June 1987.





by opening date





Written by Caryl Churchill; Featuring songs by Mickey Gallagher and Chas Jankel; Featuring songs with lyrics by Ian Drury; Choral Director: Allan Corduner; Scene from "The Volunteers or The Stock Jobbers" by Thomas Shadwell; Music arranged by Colin Sell

Directed by Max Stafford-Clark

Scenic Design by Peter Hartwell; Costume Design by Peter Hartwell; Lighting Design by Rick Fisher; Miss Nelligan's wig by Paul Huntley

General Manager: Bob MacDonald; Company Manager: Steven H. David; Associate Co. Mgr: Mary C. Miller

Production Stage Manager: James Bernardi; Stage Manager: Pat Sosnow

Casting: Rosemarie Tichler and James Mulkin; General Press Representative: Richard Kornberg; Photographer: Martha Swope; Advertising: Serino, Coyne & Nappi; Assistant to the Director (New York): Bonnie Mark; Assistant to the Director (London): Hettie Macdonald; Dialect Coach: Elizabeth Himelstein


Opening Night Cast

Valerie Bahakel LIFFE Member and Trader  
Alec Baldwin Grimes
a gilts dealer 
 
 Billy Corman
corporate raider 
 
Allan Corduner Durkfeld
a trader, co-chief executive of Klein Merrick 
 
 Greville Todd
Jake and Scilla's father, a stockbroker 
 
 Duckett
chairman of Albion 
 
 Soat
President of Missouri Gumballs 
 
 Gleason
a Cabinet Minister 
 
Christine Dunford LIFFE Member and Trader  
Cordelia González Jacinta Condor
a Peruvian businesswoman 
 
Gregory Jbara LIFFE Member and Trader  
Melinda Mullins Scilla Todd
a LIFFE dealer 
 
 Ms. Biddulph
a white knight 
 
Olivia Negrón LIFFE Member and Trader  
Kate Nelligan Marylou Baines
an American arbitrageur 
 
 Mrs. Etherington
a stockbroker 
 
 Dolcie Starr
a PR consultant 
 
John Pankow Zackerman
a banker with Klein Merrick 
 
Liann Pattison LIFFE Member and Trader  
Wendell Pierce Merrison
a banker, co-chief executive of Klein Merrick 
 
 T. K.
personal assistant to Marylou Baines 
 
 Nigel Ajibala
an importer from Ghana 
 
Stephen Rowe LIFFE Member and Trader  
Michael Rudko LIFFE Member and Trader  
Harold J. Surratt LIFFE Member and Trader  
Michael Wincott Jake Todd
Scilla's brother, a commercial paper dealer 
 
 Frosby
a jobber 
 
 Grevett
a DTI inspector 
 

Understudies: Christine Dunford (Ms. Biddulph, Scilla Todd), Gregory Jbara (Zackerman), Olivia Negrón (Jacinta Condor), Liann Pattison (Dolcie Starr, Marylou Baines, Mrs. Etherington), Stephen Rowe (Billy Corman, Grimes), Michael Rudko (Duckett, Durkfeld, Frosby, Gleason, Grevett, Greville Todd, Jake Todd, Soat), Harold J. Surratt (Merrison, Nigel Ajibala, T. K.).