First Monday in October

Majestic Theatre, (10/03/1978 - 11/12/1978)

ANTA Playhouse, (11/14/1978 - 12/09/1978)

First Preview:	Sep 19, 1978	Total Previews:	17
Opening Date:	Oct 03, 1978
Closing Date:	Dec 09, 1978	Total Performances:	79

Category: Play, Original, Broadway

Setting: Backstage at the U. S. Supreme Court. The imaginary now.

Opening Night Credits
Awards

Production Staff
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: Louis Sica and Suzanne Salter; Casting: Terry Fay; Advertising: Lawrence Weiner and Associates and Hy Jacobs

Cast

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^®
1979 Best Actress in a Play [nominee]
Jane Alexander