Poor Murderer
Play - Original
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Data not verified
- First Preview: October 13, 1976
- Opening Date: October 20, 1976
- Closing Date: January 2, 1977
- Previews: 8
- Performances: 87
Playwright: Pavel Kohout
Synopsis
An actor is interrogated in an insane asylum and led to believe that he actually killed the actor who played Polonius opposite his Hamlet during a performance of that scene from Shakespeare's play, in Czechoslovakian playwright Pavel Kohout's political thriller.
Opening Night Cast
| Ruth Ford | Third Actress | |
| Larry Gates | Professor Drzhembitsky | |
| Laurence Luckinbill | Anton Ignatyevich Kerzhentsev | |
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Kevin McCarthy | First Actor |
| Maria Schell | First Actress | |
| Julie Garfield | Second Actress | |
| Ernest Graves | Third Actor | |
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Peter Maloney | Fourth Actor |
Opening Night Production Credits
| Pavel Kohout | Writer | |
| Herbert Berghof | Translated from Kohout's Czech play and the German version of G. and A. Baumrucker | |
| Laurence Luckinbill | Translated from Kohout's Czech play and the German version of G. and A. Baumrucker | |
| Herbert Berghof | Director | |
| Howard Bay | Scenic Design | |
| Patricia Zipprodt | Costume Design |
