Benefactors, 1985

The run closed June 29, 1986

Opened

December 22, 1985

Closed

June 29, 1986

Performances

217

Previews

12

Theatre

Brooks Atkinson Theatre

Of the 464 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and carry a performance count, this is the 85th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it6 named

Mary Beth Hurt
Simon Jones
Sam Waterston
Maureen Anderman
David Birney

1 of these 6 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 5 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Michael Blakemore

Producer

James M. Nederlander

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for Benefactors at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.