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	(Feb 07, 1957 - Jun 29, 1957)
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	(Feb 07, 1957 - Jan 04, 1958)
Sarah Marshall	Ellen Spelding	(Feb 07, 1957 - Sep 14, 1957)
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