Big Deal Opening Night Cast on Broadway - Information, Cast, Crew, Synopsis and Photos

Big Deal: Opening Night Cast

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Cleavant Derricks

Charley
Loretta Devine

Lilly
Alan Weeks

Willie
Ciscoe Bruton II

Dancer
Gary Chapman

Kokomo
Dancin' Dan
Wayne Cilento

First Narrator
Desiree Coleman

Phoebe
Lloyd Culbreath

Dancer
Kim Darwin

Dancer
Bruce Anthony Davis

Second Narrator
Cady Huffman

Dancer
Mel Johnson, Jr.

Sunnyboy
Alde Lewis, Jr.

Otis
Emanuel MacDonald

Little Willie (film sequence)
Bernard J. Marsh

Judge and Bandleader
Amelia Marshall

Dancer
Larry Marshall

Slick
Frank Mastrocola

Dancer
Mennie Nelson

Millie (film sequence)
Bill Newman

The Clerk (film sequence)
Valarie Pettiford

First Shadow
Band Singer
Pearl
Stephanie Pope

Dancer
Roumel Reaux

Little Willie
Dancer
George Russell

Dancer
Candace Tovar

Dancer
Announcer
Barbara Yeager

Second Shadow
Bryant Baldwin

Dancer
(Standby)
Vince Cole

Dancer
(Standby)
Diana Laurenson

Dancer
(Standby)
James Stovall

Judge and Bandleader
(Standby)
Sunnyboy
(Standby)
Byron Utley

Slick
(Standby)
Charley
(Standby)
Bryant Baldwin

Second Narrator
(Understudy)
Ciscoe Bruton II

Dancin' Dan
(Understudy)
Vince Cole

Sunnyboy
(Understudy)
Lloyd Culbreath

Willie
(Understudy)
Kim Darwin

Second Shadow
(Understudy)
First Shadow
(Understudy)
Kenneth Hanson

Kokomo
(Understudy)
Cady Huffman

Pearl
(Understudy)
Amelia Marshall

Phoebe
(Understudy)
Frank Mastrocola

First Narrator
(Understudy)
Stephanie Pope

Lilly
(Understudy)
First Shadow
(Understudy)
Second Shadow
(Understudy)
Roumel Reaux

Otis
(Understudy)
Dancin' Dan
(Understudy)

Big Deal: Opening Night Music Credits

Gordon Lowry Harrell

Conducted
Myles Chase

Keyboard 3
Earl May

On-Stage Band - Bass
William Shadel

On-Stage Band - Clarinet
Brian Brake

On-Stage Band - Drums
J. Leonard Oxley

On-Stage Band - Piano
Britt Woodman

On-Stage Band - Trombone
Joe Mosello

On-Stage Band - Trumpet

Big Deal: Opening Night Production Credits

Bob Fosse

Book
Milton Ager

Featured Songs ("Ain't She Sweet", "Happy Days are Here Again")
Ray Henderson

Featured Songs ("Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries," "Button Up Your Overcoat," "I'm Sitting on Top of the World")
Buddy DeSylva

Featured Songs with Lyrics ("Button Up Your Overcoat")
Arthur Freed

Featured Songs with Lyrics ("I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'")
Billy Rose

Featured Songs with Lyrics ("Me and My Shadow", "I Found a Million Dollar Baby")
Al Sherman

Featured Songs with Lyrics ("Now's The Time to Fall in Love")
Dorothy Fields

Featured Songs with Lyrics ("Pick Yourself Up")
Richard A. Whiting

Featuring songs "Ain't We Got Fun"
Hughie Prince

Featuring songs "Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar"
Don Raye

Featuring songs "Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar"
Eleanor Sheehy

Featuring songs "Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar"
Ted Fiorito

Featuring songs "Charley My Boy"
Fred Fisher

Featuring songs "Chicago", "Daddy, You've Been a Mother to Me"
Spencer Williams

Featuring songs "Everybody Loves My Baby"
Abel Baer

Featuring songs "For No Good Reason at All"
Samuel W. Lewis

Featuring songs "For No Good Reason at All"
Joseph Young

Featuring songs "For No Good Reason at All"
Jerry Brandow

Featuring songs "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Leonard Kent

Featuring songs "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Edward Robinson

Featuring songs "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Willie Spottswood

Featuring songs "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Leonard Ware

Featuring songs "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Harry Warren

Featuring songs "I Found a Million Dollar Baby"
Eubie Blake

Featuring songs "I'm Just Wild About Harry"
Nacio Herb Brown

Featuring songs "I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'"
Lionello Casucci

Featuring songs "Just a Gigolo"
Lewis E. Gensler

Featuring songs "Love is Just Around the Corner"
Dave Dreyer

Featuring songs "Me and My Shadow"
Al Jolson

Featuring songs "Me and My Shadow"
Al Lewis

Featuring songs "Now's The Time to Fall in Love"
Jerome Kern

Featuring songs "Pick Yourself Up"
Edward Farley

Featuring songs "The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round"
Michael Riley

Featuring songs "The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round"
Ben Bernie

Featuring songs "Who's Your Little Whozis"
Hal Goering

Featuring songs "Who's Your Little Whozis"
Walter Donaldson

Featuring songs "Yes Sir, That's My Baby"
Jack Yellen

Featuring songs with lyrics "Ain't She Sweet", "Happy Days are Here Again"
Raymond B. Egan

Featuring songs with lyrics "Ain't We Got Fun"
Hughie Prince

Featuring songs with lyrics "Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar"
Don Raye

Featuring songs with lyrics "Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar"
Eleanor Sheehy

Featuring songs with lyrics "Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar"
Gus Kahn

Featuring songs with lyrics "Charley My Boy", "Ain't We Got Fun", "Yes Sir, That's My Baby"
Fred Fisher

Featuring songs with lyrics "Chicago", "Daddy, You've Been a Mother To Me"
Jack Palmer

Featuring songs with lyrics "Everybody Loves My Baby"
Jerry Brandow

Featuring songs with lyrics "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Leonard Kent

Featuring songs with lyrics "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Edward Robinson

Featuring songs with lyrics "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Willie Spottswood

Featuring songs with lyrics "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Leonard Ware

Featuring songs with lyrics "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Mort Dixon

Featuring songs with lyrics "I Found a Million Dollar Baby"
Noble Sissle

Featuring songs with lyrics "I'm Just Wild About Harry"
Samuel M. Lewis

Featuring songs with lyrics "I'm Sitting on Top of the World"
Joseph Young

Featuring songs with lyrics "I'm Sitting on Top of the World"
Lew Brown

Featuring songs with lyrics "Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries", "Button Up Your Overcoat"
Leo Robin

Featuring songs with lyrics "Love is Just Around the Corner"
Red Hodgson

Featuring songs with lyrics "The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round"
Walter Hirsch

Featuring songs with lyrics "Who's Your Little Whozis"
Irving Caesar

Featuring songs with lyrics (English) "Just a Gigolo"
Julius Brammer

Featuring songs with lyrics (original) "Just a Gigolo"
Mario Monicelli

Based on the film "Big Deal on Madonna Street"
Bob Fosse

Director
Choreographer
Peter Larkin

Scenic Design
Patricia Zipprodt

Costume Design
Jules Fisher

Lighting Design
Abe Jacob

Sound Design
Romaine Green

Hair Design
Christopher Chadman

Associate Choreographer
Ralph Burns

Music Orchestrations
Gordon Lowry Harrell

Music Arrangements
Phil Friedman

Production Stage Manager
Perry Cline

Stage Manager
Barry Kearsley

Stage Manager
Kenneth Hanson

Assistant Stage Manager
Randall Whitescarver

Assistant Stage Manager
Jeremiah Harris Associates

Technical Supervisor
Howard Feuer

Casting
Valarie Pettiford

Dance Captain
Joseph P. Harris Associates

General Manager
Steven H. David

Company Manager
Fred Nathan & Associates

General Press Representative
Serino, Coyne & Nappi

Advertising
Martha Swope and Associates

Photographer
The Shubert Organization

Producer
Roger Berlind

Producer
Jerome Minskoff

Producer
Jules Fisher

Executive Producer
Jonathan Farkas

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