5 Tony Award nominations, including Best Featured Actor in a Play Golden Globe ® winner Taraji P. Henson ( Hidden Figures , “Empire”) makes her Broadway debut alongside Cedric the Entertainer (CBS’ “The Neighborhood”), Tony Award ® nominee Joshua Boone ( Skeleton Crew, The Outsiders ), and Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson ( Lackawanna Blues ), who return to the stage in a luminous revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone , directed by Emmy ® and Golden Globe winner Debbie Allen (“Grey’s Anatomy,” Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ).
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- $995,389
- Avg ticket
- $128
- Seats sold
- 7,763
- Performances
- 8
- Change vs prior week
- +1.2pp capacity
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Cast & creative
From IBDB · 11 cast · 23 creative
Opening-night cast
- Kimberleigh Aarnas Mattie Campbell a resident
- Angela Bassettas Martha Pentecost
- L. Scott Caldwellas Bertha Holly Seth's wife
- Richard Parnell Habershamas Reuben Scott boy who lives next door
- Ed Hallas Bynum Walker a rootworker
- Delroy Lindoas Herald Loomis a resident
- Jamila Perryas Zonia Loomis Herald's daughter
- Bo Ruckeras Jeremy Furlow a resident
- Raynor Scheineas Rutherford Selig a peddler
- Kimberly Scottas Molly Cunningham a resident
- Mel Winkleras Seth Holly owner of the boarding house
Creative team
- Produced
- Elliot Martin,Vy Higginsen,Ken Wydro,Yale Repertory Theatre (Lloyd Richards: Artistic Director; Benjamin Mordecai: Managing Director),Jeffrey Steiner,Kery Davis,Charles Grantham
- World Premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre (Lloyd Richards
- Yale Repertory Theatre (Lloyd Richards: Artistic Director; Benjamin Mordecai: Managing Director),Huntington Theatre Company (Peter Altman, Producing Director; Michael Maso, Managing Director),The Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center
- Written
- August Wilson,Dwight Andrews
- Directed
- Lloyd Richards
- Scenic Design
- Scott Bradley,Pamela Peterson,Michael Giannitti
- General Manager
- Joseph P. Harris Associates,Mitchell Brower
- Production Stage Manager
- Karen L. Carpenter,Elliott Woodruff
- Casting
- Simon & Kumin Casting, Inc.,Jeffrey Richards Associates,Serino, Coyne & Nappi
Source: ibdb.com · scraped via the auto-build pipeline. Names + roles as IBDB labels them.
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