Category: Play, Comedy, Original, Broadway
1^st Preview Performance: September 21, 2010
Opening Night Performance: October 12, 2010
Final Performance: November 28, 2010
Total # of Performances: 56
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Opening Night Production Credits 

Opening Night Cast
Patrick Stewart (Robert)
T.R. Knight (John)

Understudies: Conan McCarty (Robert), Sean McNall (John).

Theatre Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization (Phillip J. Smith: Chairman; Robert E. Wankel: President)

Produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Jam Theatricals, Debbie Bisno, Eva Price, Larry Magid, Kathleen K. Johnson, Herbert Goldsmith Productions, Inc., Roger Kass, Barry & Carole Kaye, Kelpie Arts, Black-Pereira and Freedberg-Dale/Dombrowski-Manuel; Associate Producer: Jeremy Scott Blaustein, Shane Marshall Brown and Matt Salloway

Written by David Mamet
Directed by Neil Pepe; Assistant Director: Cat Williams

Scenic Design by Santo Loquasto; Costume Design by Laura Bauer; Lighting Design by Kenneth Posner; Wig Design by Charles LaPointe; Associate Scenic Design: Jenny Sawyers; Associate Costume Design: Bobby Tilley; Associate Lighting Design: John Viesta; Assistant Scenic Design: Antje Ellermann

General Manager: Richards / Climan, Inc.; Company Manager: Mary Miller

Technical Supervisor: Hudson Theatrical Associates; Production Stage Manager: Matthew Silver; Stage Manager: Jillian M. Oliver

Casting: Telsey + Company; Press Representative: Jeffrey Richards Associates, Alana Karpoff and Irene Gandy; Interactive Marketing: Situation Marketing; Advertising: Serino Coyne, Inc.; Fight Choreographer: J. David Brimmer; Dialect Coach: Deborah Hecht; Photographer: Brigitte Lacombe.

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“THIS IS THE SHOW TO SEE! I WAS ENTHRALLED.” 
–Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal

“LAUGH OUT LOUD FUNNY!” – Roma Torre, NY-1 News

PATRICK STEWART is DAZZLING and T.R. KNIGHT DELIGHTFUL in this THRILLING JOYRIDE.” – Linda Winder, Newsday

“An UPROARIOUSLY FUNNY backstage comedy.” –Pat Collins, WOR-9

“YOU’LL LAUGH YOUR HEAD OFF!” –Marilyn Stasio, Variety 

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PATRICK STEWART (Robert). Recent theatre: Macbeth (Tony nom.), Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death, Waiting for Godot (What’s on Stage Theatre Event of the Year, Patrick Stewart/Ian McKellen), Hamlet (RSC, Olivier for Best Actor), Twelfth Night, The Tempest and more than 40 productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Antony and Cleopatra (Enobarbus, SWET Best Actor), The Merchant of Venice (SWET Best Actor nom.) and Peter Brook’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other theatre includes The Master Builder, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Young Vic., London Fringe Best Actor Award), The Ride Down Mount Morgan (Broadway), The Tempest (Shakespeare in the Park, Broadway), Othello Washington, DC) and A Christmas Carol (L.A., Broadway, London; Olivier for Best Entertainment, Drama Desk Award for Best Solo Performer, What’s On Stage People’s Choice Award for Best Solo Performance). Film includes three X-Men movies, four Star Trek: The Next Generation movies, Conspiracy Theory, Jeffrey, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, L.A. Story, Dune and Excalibur. Television includes “Macbeth” (Great Performances), “Hamlet” (Emmy nom., Great Performances), “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (SAG Award nom.), “Extras” (Emmy nom.), “Frasier,” “The Lion in Winter” (Golden Globe nom.), “King of Texas,” “A Christmas Carol” (Emmy and SAG noms.), “Moby Dick” (Golden Globe, Emmy and SAG noms.), “Smiley’s People” and “I, Claudius.” Stewart was knighted by the Queen in the 2010 New Years Honours for Services to Drama. “Appearing as Robert, I am remembering three leading actors who allowed a greenhorn 19-year-old to share their dressing room at different times at the Sheffield Repertory Theatre, England: Victor Lucas, Philip Stone and George Wearing. Without knowing it they taught and inspired me. They are all gone but I remember them with affection and gratitude.”

T.R. KNIGHT (John). Broadway: Noises Off, Tartuffe. Off-Broadway: Boy, Scattergood (Drama Desk nom.), The Hologram Theory, This Lime Tree Bower, Macbeth. Regional: Amadeus; Ah, Wilderness!; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Racing Demon; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Much Ado About Nothing (Guthrie Theater). Television: “Charlie Lawrence,” “Grey’s Anatomy” (Emmy nom.).

DAVID MAMET (Playwright). Mr. Mamet is the author of various plays and screenplays and has directed ten films. He is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company and the author of the bestselling Theatre; Bambi vs.  Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business; The Wicked Son; Three Uses of the Knife; and True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor. His book of cartoons, Tested on Orphans, is available at www.sfelectricworks.com, and his graphic novel, The Trials of Roderick Spode: The Human Ant, is currently available in bookstores.

NEIL PEPE (Director) made his Broadway debut with the acclaimed revival of David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow. Last winter, he directed Frank Gilroy’s The Subject Was Roses with Martin Sheen and Frances Conroy at the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles. He has been the artistic director of Atlantic Theater Company since 1992. There he has directed Ethan Coen’s Almost an Evening and Offices; Jez Butterworth’s Parlour Song; David Mamet’s American Buffalo starring William H. Macy (also Donmar Warehouse, London), Keep Your Pantheon and School; David Pittu’s What’s That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling; Harold Pinter’s The Room and Celebration; David Mamet’s Romance (also Mark Taper Forum, L.A.); Milos by John Guare; Tom Donaghy’s The Beginning of August (also South Coast Rep.); Howard Korder’s Sea of Tranquility; Jez Butterworth’s Mojo and The Night Heron; Joe Penhall’s Blue/Orange; Wolf Lullaby by Hilary Bell; Clean by Edwin Sanchez; and Shaker Heights by Quincy Long. Other credits include the world premiere of David Mamet’s Keep Your Pantheon as well as The Duck Variations (Center Theater Group), Further Than the Furthest Thing by Zinnie Harris (Manhattan Theatre Club), Eric Bogosian’s Red Angel (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Jessica Goldberg’s Refuge (Playwrights Horizons).

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