Orpheus Descending, 1989

The run closed December 17, 1989

Opened

September 24, 1989

Closed

December 17, 1989

Performances

97

Previews

13

Theatre

Neil Simon Theatre

Of the 464 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and carry a performance count, this is the 145th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Orpheus Descending 1 more that season

1957

Martin Beck Theatre Original · Harold Clurman

68 perf.

Who was in it20 named

Vanessa Redgrave
Anne Twomey
Patti Allison
Lewis Arlt
Lynn Cohen
Constance Crawford
Bette Henritze
Thomas Kopache
Pat Mcnamara
Richard Mcwilliams
Stephen Mendillo
Manning Redwood
Doyle Richmond
Sloane Shelton
Peg Small
Brad Sullivan
Mitch Webb

3 of these 20 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 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

Peter Hall

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 Orpheus Descending at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.