PlayOriginalBroadway
Opening Date
Oct 03, 1978
Closing Date
Dec 09, 1978
1st Preview
Sep 19, 1978
1st Preview
Sep 19, 1978
Previews
17
Performances
79
PlayOriginalBroadway
External Links
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ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION

Theatres
Majestic Theatre
(Oct 03, 1978 - Nov 12, 1978)
ANTA Playhouse
(Nov 14, 1978 - Dec 09, 1978)
Setting
Backstage at the U. S. Supreme Court. The imaginary now.
Theatre Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization (Gerald Schoenfeld: Chairman; Bernard B. Jacobs: President)
Produced by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Plumstead Theatre Society, Inc. (Martha Scott, Joel Spector, Bernard Wiesen)
Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Directed by Edwin Sherin
Scenic Design by Oliver Smith; Costume Design by Ann Roth; Lighting Design by Roger Morgan
General Manager: Theatre Now, Inc.
Production Stage Manager: Frederic de Wilde; Stage Manager: Robert Crawley; Assistant Stage Mgr: John Stewart and Eugene Stuckmann
General Press Representative: John Springer Associates; Press Representative: Suzanne Salter and Louis Sica; Casting: Terry Fay; Advertising: Hy Jacobs and Lawrence Weiner and Associates
Jane Alexander
Judge Ruth Loomis
Henry Fonda
Associate Justice Daniel Snow
Larry Gates
Chief Justice James Jefferson Crawford
Maurice Copeland
Associate Justice Waldo Thompson
Ron Faber
Blake
Carol Mayo Jenkins
Miss Birnbaum
Patrick McCullough
Associate Justice Christopher Halloran
John Newton
The Marshall
Alexander Reed
Associate Justice Ambrose Quincy
P. J. Sidney
Custodian
Tom Stechschulte
Mason Woods
John Stewart
Custodian
 
Photographer
Eugene Stuckmann
Associate Justice Richard Carey
Earl Sydnor
Associate Justice Josiah Clewes
John Wardwell
Associate Justice Harold Webb
Standby: Carol Mayo Jenkins (Judge Ruth Loomis) and John Newton (Associate Justice Daniel Snow)
Understudies: Maurice Copeland (Chief Justice James Jefferson Crawford), Alexander Reed (Associate Justice Harold Webb, Blake), P. J. Sidney (Associate Justice Josiah Clewes, Nightwatchman), John Stewart (Mason Woods) and Eugene Stuckmann (The Marshall)

Tony Award®

 

Best Actress in a Play

1979 Nominee
Jane Alexander
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