PlayPlay with musicOriginalBroadway
Opening Date
Apr 05, 1972
Closing Date
Apr 08, 1972
1st Preview
Mar 28, 1972
1st Preview
Mar 28, 1972
Previews
11
Performances
5
PlayPlay with musicOriginalBroadway
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ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION

The credits for this production have not yet been completed or verified.
Theatres
Lyceum Theatre
(Apr 05, 1972 - Apr 08, 1972)
Setting
Late 1500s, the apogee of Elizabeth's reign. A touring company of Elizabethan players performing their version of "Elizabeth I" on a street platform in Shoreditch, London.
Comments
Parts in "Elizabeth I" are interchangeable
Produced by Edgar Lansbury, Stuart Duncan and Joseph Beruh; Associate Producer: Edwin Gifford and Michael Gifford
Written by Paul Foster; Incidental music by David Sheridan Spangler
Directed by John-Michael Tebelak
Scenic Design by Robbie Anton; Costume Design by Susan Tsu; Lighting Design by Roger Morgan; Sound Design by Jack Shearing
Production Stage Manager: Gail Bell
Assistant to the Producers: Darrell Jonas and Ron Bunker; Musician: David Sheridan Spangler, Michael Myers, Charles Macety and Tom Everett
Press Representative: Max Eisen and Milly Schoenbaum
Jeff Chandler
King Philip
 
God
 
Headsman
 
Pipesmoker
Jerry Cunliffe
Burghley
 
Nostradamus
 
Adelantade-Admiral
 
Cambridge Dean
 
Muscovite
Tom Everett
Hatton
 
Feria
 
Dauphin
 
Earth
 
Paulet
 
Martin-Admiral
 
Crest Keeper
 
Cambridge Don
Donald Forrest
Francis Bacon
 
Pope Gregory XIII
 
Whitgift-Archbishop of Canterbury
Jerry Glover
Leicester
 
Lord Mayor
 
Pipesmoker 2
 
d'Aubigny
Charles Haid
Bowyer
 
Stubbes
 
Walsingham
 
Sun
 
Lazarus Tucker
Jeanette Landis
Queen Catherine
 
Queen Elizabeth I
Ruby Lynn Reyner
Mary of Scotland
 
Sky
 
Laundress
 
Pipesmoker 3
Dawn Siebel
Witch
 
Moon
 
Mousorsky
 
Pipesmoker 4
Hervé Villechaize
Cecil
 
Dwarf
 
Warsavite
 
Spanish Cardinal
Penelope Windust
Elizabeth the Player Queen
Standby: James Richardson

Tony Award®

 

Best Featured Actress in a Play

1973 Nominee
Penelope Windust
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