John Goodman "ROBBER BRIDEGROOM" Frank Luz / Alfred Uhry 1977 Wilmington Program

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This is a rare October 10th, 1977 playbill from the one-week, National Tour engagement of the ALFRED UHRY and ROBERT WALDMAN musical "THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM" at the Playhouse Theatre in Wilmington, Delaware. (The production opened October 9th, 1976
at the Biltmore Theatre in New York City
and ran for 145 performances before going on the road.) ..... The musical started with an early 1970's production in producer Stuart Ostrow's Musical Theatre Lab, which invented the concept of the "workshop" development process for musicals. RAUL JULIA starred as "Lockhart". John Houseman's group, THE ACTING COMPANY took the show to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, New York with KEVIN KLINE replacing Julia, PATTI LuPONE as "Rosamund", and MARY LOU ROSATO as "Salome". It then was staged at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago in the summer of 1975. The first Broadway production, with the same Ravinia cast directed by GERALD FREEDMAN and choreographed by DONALD SADDLER, opened in a limited engagement on October 6th, 1975 at the Harkness Theatre, where it ran for one preview and 14 performances before setting out on a one-year U.S. National Tour. Its success on the road convinced the producers to mount a revamped Broadway production with an extended book and expanded, heavily bluegrass-tinged score ..... This production starred FRANK LUZ as "Lockhart", BARBARA MARINEAU as "Rosamund" and LAURIE FRANKS as "Salome" and featured JOHN GOODMAN (in one of his earliest professional stage productions), TRIP PLYMALE, ERNIE SABELLA, THOMAS LEE SINCLAIR, SCOTT HOLMES, MAY KELLER, PENNY LEONE, STEPHANIE LYNNE, NANCY MILLER, DONALYN PETRUCCI, RICHARD WARREN PUGH, MICHAELAN SISTI, KENNY KOSEK, ROGER MASON, JOHN SHOLLE and JAMES TOLLES ..... CREDITS: Book and Lyrics by ALFRED UHRY; Composed and Arranged by ROBERT WALDMAN; Based upon the Novella by EUDORA WELTY; Sets designed by DOUGLAS W. SCHMIDT; Costumes designed by JEANNE BUTTON; Choreographed by DENNIS GRIMALDI; Directed by BOLEN HIGH; Produced by TOM MALLOW and GORDON CROWE ..... DETAILS: The 36 page playbill measures 6" X 9 1/4" inches and includes full production credits, cast list, synopsis of scenes, list of musical numbers and bios of each of the leading actors (John Goodman's bio is shown in the last scanned image) and members of the creative team, but no cast photos ..... CONDITION: With the exception of minor edge wear, this playbill is in excellent condition and will make a wonderful addition to the collection of any musical theatre aficionado or historian. This item will be carefully packaged in a protective, carded sleeve and backed by stiff cardboard.