PlayDramaOriginalBroadway
Opening Date
Mar 06, 2014
Closing Date
Jun 29, 2014
1st Preview
Feb 10, 2014
1st Preview
Feb 10, 2014
Previews
27
Performances
131
PlayDramaOriginalBroadway

ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION

Theatres
Neil Simon Theatre
(Mar 06, 2014 - Jun 29, 2014)
Setting
Washington, DC; Atlantic City; Atlanta; Mississippi. November, 1963-November, 1964.
Theatre Owned / Operated by The Nederlander Organization (James M. Nederlander: Chairman; James L. Nederlander: President)
Written by Robert Schenkkan; Composer: Paul James Prendergast
Directed by Bill Rauch; Associate Directed by Emily Sophia Knapp
Scenic Design by Christopher Acebo; Costume Design by Deborah M. Dryden; Lighting Design by Jane Cox; Sound Design by Paul James Prendergast; Hair and Wig Design by Paul Huntley; Projection Design by Shawn Sagady; Associate Scenic Design by Steven C. Kemp; Associate Costume Design by Sarah Smith; Associate Lighting Design by Porsche McGovern; Associate Projection Design by Michael Clark; Moving Light Programmer: Jay Penfield; Assistant Sound Design by Kevin Heard; Watchout Projection Programming: Paul Vershbow
General Manager: Richards / Climan, Inc.; Company Manager: Alexandra Agosta; Assistant Company Manager: Kendall Booher
Technical Supervisor: Hudson Theatrical Associates; Production Stage Manager: Matthew Farrell; Stage Manager: James Latus
Dramaturg: Tom Bryant; Dialect Coach: Rebecca Clark Carey; Casting: Telsey + Company and Will Cantler, CSA; Sound Consultant: Peter Fitzgerald; Press Representative: Irene Gandy and Alana Karpoff; Advertising: AKA; Interactive Marketing: Broadway's Best Shows and Andy Drachenberg; Photographer: Evgenia Eliseeva; Press Associate: Christopher Pineda; Website/Design/Online Marketing Strategy: AKA
Projection Consultant: Wendall K. Harrington
Originally presented by Oregon Shakespeare Festival and American Repertory Theater
Bryan Cranston
Broadway debut
President Lyndon Baines Johnson
Eric Lenox Abrams
Bob Moses (COFO co-director)
 
David Dennis (CORE leader, MS)
Betsy Aidem
Lady Bird Johnson (First Lady)
 
Katharine Graham (Washington Post publisher)
 
Rep. Katharine St. George, R-NY
J. Bernard Calloway
Rev. Ralph Abernathy (SCLC secretary-treasurer)
 
White House Aide/Butler
Rob Campbell
Gov. George Wallace, D-AL
 
Rep. James Corman, D-CA
 
Joseph Alsop (journalist)
 
Sen. Mike Mansfield, D-MT
 
Walter Reuther (president of UAW)
Brandon J. Dirden
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (SCLC president)
James Eckhouse
Robert McNamara (Secretary of Defense)
 
Sen. James Eastland, D-MS
 
Rep. William Moore McCulloch, R-OH
 
Gov. Paul B. Johnson, Jr., D-MS
Peter Jay Fernandez
Roy Wilkins (NAACP executive director)
 
Shoeshiner
 
Aaron Henry (MFDP delegate)
Christopher Gurr
Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-SC
 
White House Aide/Butler
William Jackson Harper
James Harrison (SCLC accountant)
 
Stokely Carmichael (SNCC organizer)
Michael McKean
J. Edgar Hoover (FBI director)
 
Sen. Robert Byrd, D-WV
John McMartin
Sen. Richard Russell, D-GA
Christopher Liam Moore
Walter Jenkins (top aide to LBJ)
 
Rep. William Colmer, D-MS
Robert Petkoff
Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-MN
Ethan Phillips
Stanley Levison (SCLC advisor)
 
Rep. John McCormack, D-MA
 
Seymore Trammell (District Attorney in Alabama)
 
Rev. Edwin King (MFDP organizer)
Richard Poe
Cartha "Deke" DeLoach (FBI deputy director)
 
Rep. Howard "Judge" Smith, D-VA
 
Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-IL
 
Gov. Carl Sanders, D-GA
Roslyn Ruff
Coretta Scott King
 
Fannie Lou Hamer (SNCC organizer)
Susannah Schulman
Secretary
 
Lurleen Wallace
 
Muriel Humphrey
 
Sen. Maurine Neuberger, D-OR
Bill Timoney
Sen. Karl Mundt, R-SD
 
White House Aide/Butler
Steve Vinovich
Rep. Emanuel Celler, D-NY
 
White House Aide/Butler
Understudies: Tony Carlin (Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-MN, J. Edgar Hoover, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-WV, Sen. Richard Russell, D-GA, Cartha "Deke" DeLoach, Rep. Howard "Judge" Smith, D-VA, Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-IL, Gov. Carl Sanders, D-GA, Rep. Emanuel Celler, D-NY, White House Aide/Butler), Gina Daniels (Coretta Scott King, Fannie Lou Hamer), Christopher Gurr (Gov. George Wallace, D-AL, Rep. James Corman, D-CA, Sen. Mike Mansfield, D-MT, Walter Reuther, Walter Jenkins, Rep. William Colmer, D-MS), Danny Johnson (Bob Moses, David Dennis, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, White House Aide/Butler, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins, Aaron Henry, Shoeshiner, James Harrison, Stokely Carmichael), Monette Magrath (Lady Bird Johnson, Katharine Graham, Rep. Katharine St. George, R-NY, Secretary, Lurleen Wallace, Muriel Humphrey, White House Aide, Maid), Bill Timoney (Robert McNamara, Sen. James Eastland, D-MS, Rep. William Moore McCulloch, R-OH, Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-SC, Gov. Paul B. Johnson, Jr., D-MS, White House Aide/Butler) and Steve Vinovich (President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Stanley Levison, Rep. John McCormack, D-MA, Seymore Trammell, Rev. Edwin King)

Neil Simon Theatre (Mar 06, 2014 - Jun 29, 2014)

Substitute Stage Manager: Jeff Brancato

Tony Award®

Best Play

2014 Winner

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

2014 Winner
Bryan Cranston

Drama Desk Award

Outstanding Play

2014 Winner

Outstanding Actor in a Play

2014 Winner
Bryan Cranston
 

Outstanding Sound Design in a Play

2014 Nominee
Sound Design by Paul James Prendergast
 

Outstanding Director of a Play

2014 Nominee
Directed by Bill Rauch
 

Outstanding Projection Design

2014 Nominee
Projection Design by Shawn Sagady

Theatre World

Award

2014 Recipient
Bryan Cranston
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Statistics supplied are courtesy of The Broadway League.
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