PlayComedyOriginalBroadway
Opening Date
Mar 22, 1987
Closing Date
Apr 10, 1988
1st Preview
Mar 10, 1987
1st Preview
Mar 10, 1987
Previews
15
Performances
441
PlayComedyOriginalBroadway

ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION

Theatres
Helen Hayes Theatre
(Mar 22, 1987 - Apr 10, 1988)
Setting
Terre Haute, Indiana. November 1981.
Theatre Owned / Operated by Donald Tick and Martin Markinson
Produced by Kevin Dowling, Joan Stein, Melvyn J. Estrin, Susan Rose, Gail Berman and Lynn Dowling; Produced in association with F. Harlan Batrus, Gina Rogak and George A. Schapiro; Produced by arrangement with Bruce Hyman and André Ptaszynski; Associate Producer: Gintare Sileika Everett, Allan Matthews and Yentl Productions
Originally produced by Milwaukee Repertory Company
Written by Larry Shue
Directed by Charles Nelson Reilly
Scenic Design by John Lee Beatty; Costume Design by Deborah Shaw; Lighting Design by Dennis Parichy; Sound Design by Timothy Helgeson; Monster costume designed by Andrew Benepe; Hair Design by Vito Mastrogiovanni
General Manager: Proscenium Services, Inc. and TheatrePop, Inc.; Company Manager: Susan Gustafson
Production Stage Manager: Robert T. Bennett; Stage Manager: Daniel R. Bauer
Casting: Deborah Brown; General Press Representative: Adrian Bryan-Brown, Reva Cooper and Josh Ellis; Advertising: Fisher / LeDonne / Wilner; Photographer: Gerry Goodstein
Mark Hamill
Willum Cubbert
Mar 10, 1987 - Sep 20, 1987
Robert Joy
Rick Steadman
Mar 10, 1987 - Nov 1987
Peter Riegert
Axel Hammond
Pamela Blair
Clelia Waldgrave
Patricia Kalember
Broadway debut
Tansy McGinnis
Wayne Tippit
Warnock Waldgrave
Timmy Geissler
Broadway debut
Thor Waldgrave
Standby: Edward Edwards (Willum Cubbert, Rick Steadman, Axel Hammond, Warnock Waldgrave)
Understudy: Jeremy Cummins (Thor Waldgrave)

Helen Hayes Theatre (Mar 22, 1987 - Apr 10, 1988)

Cast

Jim Borrelli
Axel Hammond
Gary Burghoff
Broadway debut
Willum Cubbert
Sep 22, 1987 - Jan 09, 1988
Daniel Hagen
Broadway debut
Willum Cubbert
Robert Joy
Willum Cubbert
Jan 10, 1988 - ?
 
Rick Steadman
Peter MacNicol
Rick Steadman
Nov 1987 - ?
Peggy Cosgrave
Broadway debut
Clelia Waldgrave
Debra Engle
Tansy McGinnis
Susanna Frazer
Tansy McGinnis
Stephen Rowe
Axel Hammond
Zachariah Overton
Broadway debut
Thor Waldgrave
Understudies: Daniel Hagen (Willum Cubbert, Rick Steadman, Axel Hammond, Warnock Waldgrave), Daren Edward Higgins (Thor Waldgrave), Sofia Landon (Tansy McGinnis, Clelia Waldgrave) and Josh Saviano (Thor Waldgrave)
Season:
View Graph
Week Ending Gross % Gross Pot. Attendance % Capacity # Previews # Perf.
Statistics supplied are courtesy of The Broadway League.
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