Becket

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Hudson Theatre , (5/08/1961 - 5/27/1961)

Category: Play, Original, Broadway

Setting: The time is between 1155 and 1170 A.D.

This production is a return engagement of Becket (10/05/1960 - 3/25/1961)

Production Staff
Produced by David Merrick
Written by Jean Anouilh; Translated by Lucienne Hill; Incidental music by Laurence Rosenthal
Staged by Peter Glenville
Scenic Design by Oliver Smith; Lighting Design by Jean Rosenthal; Costume Design by Motley
General Manager: Jack Schlissel; Company Manager: Oliver W. Nicoll
Production Stage Manager: Lucia Victor; Stage Manager: Frank Dudley; Production Supervisor: Neil Hartley; Assistant Stage Mgr: Val Wrenne
Press Representative: James D. Proctor; Casting Director: Michael Shurtleff

Cast

Arthur Kennedy	Thomas Becket
Laurence Olivier	Henry II Duke of Normandy and King of England

The Queen Mother

Hilary Beckett	His Daughter
Mel Berger	Third English Baron
	First Monk from Hastings
Marshall Breeden	Second Servant
Nat Burns	A Saxon Peasant
	The Pope
Nicolas Coster	A Soldier
	The Duke of Arundel
Brian Crowe	A Young Monk
Kit Culkin	Henry's Younger Son
	A Young Footsoldier
Robert Duke	Henry's Page
Robert Eckles	Louis King of France
James Frawley	Second Monk from Hastings
	Second English Baron
Margaret Hall	The Queen Wife to Henry
Ferdi Hoffman	Fourth English Baron
Will Hussung	The Bishop of Oxford
	William of Corbeil
	First French Baron
Edith Lebok	A French Girl
Tom Leith	His Son
	A Monk Secretary to Becket
Joanna Merlin	Gwendolen
Earl Montgomery	Gilbert Folliot Bishop of London
Al Rand	A Servant
Dennis Rosa	Henry's Elder Son
Dino Terranova	A French Priest
	Cardinal Zambelli
Victor Thorley	The Bishop of York
	The Provost Marshall
Sydney Walker	The Archbishop of Canterbury
	Second French Baron
	A Priest
Ronald Weyand	Second English Baron
Louis Zorich	First English Baron
	An Old Footsoldier

Standbys: Nicolas Coster (Henry II) and Robert Duke (Thomas Becket)

Understudy: Rose Ostro (Gwendolen)