The First, 1981

The run closed December 13, 1981

Opened

November 17, 1981

Closed

December 13, 1981

Performances

31

Previews

33

Theatre

Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Of the 464 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and carry a performance count, this is the 270th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it28 named

Red Barber
Steven Bland
Stephen Crain
Kim Criswell
Patricia Drylie
Michael Edward Stevens
Luther Fontaine
Paul Forrest
Ray Gill
Thomas Griffith
Jack Hallett
Janet Hubert
David Huddleston
Margaret Lamee
Boncellia Lewis
Lonette Mckee
Bob Morrisey
D Peter Samuel
Rodney Saulsberry
Sam Stoneburner
Paul Cook Tartt
George D Wallace
Trey Wilson
Tom Griffith

4 of these 28 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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

Alan Johnson

Choreographer

Alan Johnson

Producer

Zev Bufman

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