PlayComedyOriginalBroadway
Opening Date
Oct 09, 1980
Closing Date
Nov 30, 1980
1st Preview
Sep 22, 1980
1st Preview
Sep 22, 1980
Previews
20
Performances
60
PlayComedyOriginalBroadway
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ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION

Theatres
ANTA Playhouse
(Oct 09, 1980 - Nov 30, 1980)
Setting
A Moscow tenement. The 1920s.
ANTA Managing Director: Alfred De Liagre, Jr.
Produced by The Aurora StageWing, Inc., Bill Dyer and Dick De Benedictis; Associate Producer: R. Tyler Gatchell, Jr. and Peter Neufeld
Originally produced by Trinity Square Repertory Company (Adrian Hall, Director)
Written by Nikolai Erdman; Translated by George Genereux, Jr. and Jacob Volkov; Incidental music by Richard Weinstock; Book adapted by Trinity Square Repertory Company (Adrian Hall, Director) and Jonas Jurasas; Featuring songs with lyrics by Bill Dyer
Directed by Jonas Jurasas; Movement by Ara Fitzgerald
Scenic Design by Santo Loquasto; Costume Design by Santo Loquasto; Lighting Design by F. Mitchell Dana; Sound Design by Jack Shearing; Hair Design by J. Roy Helland; Make-Up Design by J. Roy Helland
Executive Producer: James L. Stewart and Rich Irvine; General Manager: Gatchell & Neufeld, Ltd.; Associate Gen. Mgr: Douglas C. Baker; Company Manager: Mark Andrews
Production Stage Manager: Peter Lawrence; Stage Manager: Jim Woolley; Assistant Stage Mgr: Sarah Whitham; Technical Coordinator: Arthur Siccardi
Musician: Bill Moersch and Andy Seligson; Music Consultant: Roman Romanov; Music Contractor: John Monaco
General Press Representative: Jeffrey Richards Associates; Literary Consultant: Michael Henry Heim; Photographer: Peter Cunningham; Casting: T.N.I. Casting, Julie Hughes and Barry Moss; Advertising: Ash / LeDonne; Poster Design by Gilbert Lesser
Derek Jacobi
Semyon Semyonovich Podsekalnikov
Senya, the would-be suicide
Grayson Hall
Serafima Ilyinishna
Senya's mother-in-law
John Heffernan
Aristarkh Dominikovich Grand-Skubik
an intellectual
Angela Pietropinto
Maria Lukyanovna
Masha, Senya's wife
Susan Edwards
Vtoraya
a gypsy woman (violin)
Laura Esterman
Cleopatra Maximovna
a beauty who has seen better days
Clarence Felder
Alexander Petrovich Kalabushkin
the upstairs neighbor
Cheryl Giannini
Tretya
a gypsy woman (tambourine)
Carol Mayo Jenkins
Margarita Ivanovna
Senya's close and dear friend
John Christopher Jones
Yegor Timofeevich
a Marxist
David Patrick Kelly
Pervy
a gypsy man (mandolin)
 
A Young Boy
Derek Meader
Vtoroy
a gypsy man (violin)
William Myers
Father Yelpidy
a priest
Mary Lou Rosato
Raisa Filippovna
Cleopatra's rival
David Sabin
Waldemar Arsenyevich Pugachov
a butcher
Leda Siskind
Pervaya
a gypsy woman (balalaika)
 
Woman with young boy
Chip Zien
Victor Victorovich
a writer
Jeff Zinn
Trety
a gypsy man (guitar)
Standby: Russell Horton (Semyon Semyonovich Podsekalnikov)
Understudies: Susan Edwards (Raisa Filippovna), Cheryl Giannini (Serafima Ilyinishna, Cleopatra Maximovna), Christopher Loomis (Alexander Petrovich Kalabushkin, Waldemar Arsenyevich Pugachov, Father Yelpidy), Derek Meader (Victor Victorovich), Polly Pen (Pervaya, Vtoraya, Tretya, Woman with young boy, Margarita Ivanovna), John Seeman (Yegor Timofeevich, Pervy, Trety, Vtoroy, A Young Boy) and Leda Siskind (Maria Lukyanovna)

Tony Award®

 

Best Scenic Design

1981 Nominee
Scenic Design by Santo Loquasto

Drama Desk Award

 

Outstanding Actor in a Play

1981 Nominee
Derek Jacobi
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