King Lear

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City Center , (1/12/1956 - 1/29/1956)

Category: Play, Tragedy, Revival, Broadway

Setting: England

Production Staff
Produced by New York City Center Theatre Company (Jean Dalrymple: Director); Produced by arrangement with Martin Gabel and Henry M. Margolis
Written by William Shakespeare; Musical score by Marc Blitzstein
Directed by Orson Welles; Associate Director: Emerson Crocker
Scenic Design by Theodore Cooper; Costume Design by Robert Fletcher
Company Manager: Gilman Haskell
Production Stage Manager: Herman Shapiro; Stage Manager: John Maxtone-Graham and Spofford Beadle
Harpsichord/Leader: Marc Blitzstein; Flute/Clarinet: Harvey Estrin; Trumpet: David Jandorf; French Horn: Martin Noliboff; Timpani/Percussion: Frank Weisberg
General Press Representative: Jean Dalrymple and Tom Trenkle

Cast

King Lear of Britain

Art Alisi	Knight
	Officer
David Anthony	Knight
	Officer
Jack Aronson	Tenant to Gloucester
	Gentleman
Julian Barry	Knight
	Officer
Robert Blackburn	King of France
Sorrell Booke	Duke of Albany
Robert Burr	Servant to Cornwall
	Captain
Francis Carpenter	Oswald Goneril's Steward
Tom Clancy	Curan
John Colicos	Edmund Gloucester's Bastard Son
Thayer David	Duke of Cornwall
Roy Dean	Earl of Kent
Richard Edelman	Knight
	Officer
Alvin Epstein	Fool
Geraldine Fitzgerald	Goneril Lear's Daughter
Robert Fletcher	Edgar Gloucester's Son
Richard Hill	Knight
	Officer
Viveca Lindfors	Cordelia Lear's Daughter
Walter Mathews	Duke of Burgundy
	Doctor
Kenneth Mays	Knight
	Officer
Thomas Newman	Knight
	Officer
Lou Perri	Knight
	Officer
James T. Pritchett	Knight
	Officer
Don Ratka	Knight
	Officer
Lester Rawlins	Earl of Gloucester
Sylvia Short	Regan Lear's Daughter
Robert Weaver	Knight
	Officer
Michael Yuda	Knight
	Officer