A Visit to a Small Planet

Booth Theatre, (2/07/1957 - 1/11/1958)

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Opening Date:	Feb 07, 1957
Closing Date:	Jan 11, 1958	Total Performances:	388

Category: Play, Comedy, Original, Broadway

Description: A comedy in three acts and four scenes

Setting: The house of Roger Spelding outside Manassas, Virginia. The time is next next summer.

Opening Night Credits
Awards

Production Staff [See More]
Theatre Operated by Affiliated Theatre Building Co., Inc.; Theatre Owned by The Shubert Organization
Produced by George Axelrod and Clinton Wilder
Written by Gore Vidal
Directed by Cyril Ritchard
Scenic Design by Oliver Smith; Lighting Design by Feder; Sound Design by Masque Sound Engineering Company
General Manager: Sylvia Herscher; Business Manager: Michael Goldreyer
Production Stage Manager: Pat Chandler; Stage Manager: Pat Fowler
The Emotional and Rather Alarming Vibrations Electronically Created by Louis Barron and Bebe Barron
Costume Supervisor: Patricia Zipprodt; Press Representative: William Fields and Walter Alford

Cast

Cyril Ritchard	Kreton
Eddie Mayehoff	General Tom Powers
Francis Bethencourt	A Friend
Sibyl Bowan	Reba Spelding
Philip Coolidge	Roger Spelding
Bob Gothie	Aide
Martyn Green	Kreton	Alternate
John Hallow	Sound Man
Conrad Janis	Conrad Mayberry
Sarah Marshall	Ellen Spelding
Earl Montgomery	Cameraman
Grenadier Saadi	Rosemary

Understudies: Pat Fowler (Ellen Spelding, Reba Spelding), Genevieve Frizzell (Reba Spelding), Bob Gothie (Conrad Mayberry), John Hallow (A Friend, Aide) and Earl Montgomery (General Tom Powers, Roger Spelding)

Tony Award^®
1957 Best Actor in Play [nominee]
Cyril Ritchard
1957 Best Featured Actor in a Play [nominee]
Eddie Mayehoff
1957 Best Scenic Design [nominee]
Oliver Smith