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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1963

Shows · One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest · Cort Theatre, 1963

Original BroadwayJames Earl Jones Theatre 82 performances

The run closed January 25, 1964

Opened
November 13, 1963
Closed
January 25, 1964
Performances
82
Previews
1

Of the 605 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and carry a performance count, this is the 220th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 2 more that season

2001 Royale Theatre Revival · Terry Kinney 121 perf.
2004 Gielgud Theatre Original

Who was in it22 named

Ed Ames
Malcolm Atterbury
Kirk Douglas
Wesley Gale
William Gleason
Peter Gumeny
Paul Huber
Lincoln Kilpatrick
Michi Kobi
Al Nesor
Gerald S O Loughlin
Leonard Parker
Joan Tetzel
K C Townsend
Charles Tyner
Gene Wilder
Milton J Williams
Astrid Wilsrud

4 of these 22 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 18 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
Alex Segal
Producer
David Merrick

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 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at all.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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