PlayTragedyRevivalBroadway
Opening Date
Jan 12, 1956
Closing Date
Jan 29, 1956
Performances
21
PlayTragedyRevivalBroadway
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ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION

The credits for this production have not yet been completed or verified.
Theatres
City Center
(Jan 12, 1956 - Jan 29, 1956)
Setting
England
Produced by New York City Center Theatre Company (Jean Dalrymple: Director); Produced by arrangement with Martin Gabel and Henry M. Margolis
Written by William Shakespeare; Musical score by Marc Blitzstein
Directed by Orson Welles; Associate Director: Emerson Crocker
Scenic Design by Theodore Cooper; Costume Design by Robert Fletcher
Company Manager: Gilman Haskell
Production Stage Manager: Herman Shapiro; Stage Manager: John Maxtone-Graham and Spofford Beadle
Harpsichord/Leader: Marc Blitzstein; Flute/Clarinet: Harvey Estrin; Trumpet: David Jandorf; French Horn: Martin Noliboff; Timpani/Percussion: Frank Weisberg
General Press Representative: Jean Dalrymple and Tom Trenkle
Orson Welles
King Lear of Britain
Art Alisi
Knight
 
Officer
David Anthony
Knight
 
Officer
Jack Aronson
Tenant to Gloucester
 
Gentleman
Julian Barry
Knight
 
Officer
Robert Blackburn
King of France
Sorrell Booke
Duke of Albany
Goneril's husband
Robert Burr
Servant to Cornwall
 
Captain
Francis Carpenter
Oswald
Goneril's Steward
Tom Clancy
Curan
John Colicos
Edmund
Gloucester's Bastard Son
Thayer David
Duke of Cornwall
Regan's husband
Roy Dean
Earl of Kent
Richard Edelman
Knight
 
Officer
Alvin Epstein
Fool
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Goneril
Lear's Daughter
Robert Fletcher
Edgar
Gloucester's Son
Richard Hill
Knight
 
Officer
Viveca Lindfors
Cordelia
Lear's Daughter
Walter Mathews
Duke of Burgundy
 
Doctor
Kenneth Mays
Knight
 
Officer
Thomas Newman
Knight
 
Officer
Lou Perri
Knight
 
Officer
James T. Pritchett
Knight
 
Officer
Don Ratka
Knight
 
Officer
Lester Rawlins
Earl of Gloucester
Sylvia Short
Regan
Lear's Daughter
Robert Weaver
Knight
 
Officer
Michael Yuda
Knight
 
Officer
Understudy: Anne Meacham
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