Coram Boy
Broadway Play with Music Previews
April 16 2007
Opened May 2 2007
Closed May 27 2007 Run
17 previews & 30 performances Producer
Boyett Ostar Productions, The Shubert
Organization, Roy Furman, Lawrence Horowitz, Stephanie McClelland, et al
Creative
Jamila Gavin original novel
Helen Edmundson book
Adrian Sutton music
Melly Still director
Ti Green & Melly Still costume design
Paule Constable lighting design
Ti Green & Melly Still scenic design
Christopher Shutt sound design
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Opening Night Cast |
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Jolly Abraham |
Molly |
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Uzo Aduba |
Toby |
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Jacqueline Antaramian |
Mrs Hendry |
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Bill Camp |
Otis Gardner |
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Dashiell Eaves |
Adult Thomas Ledbury |
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Xanthe Elbrick |
Young Alexander Ashbrook
Aaron |
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Tom Riis Farrell |
Thomas Claymore |
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Brad Fleischer |
Meshak Gardiner |
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Karron Graves |
Isobel Ashbrook |
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Laura Heisler |
Edward Ashbrook |
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Angela Lin |
Miss Price |
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David Andrew Macdonald |
Lord Ashbrook |
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Quentin Mare |
Doctor Smith
Handel |
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Jan Maxwell |
Mrs Lynch |
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Kathleen McNenny |
Mrs Milcote |
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Cristin Milioti |
Alice Ashbrook |
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Charlotte Parry |
Young Thomas Ledbury |
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Christina Rouner |
Lady Ashbrook |
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Ivy Vahanian |
Melissa
Angel |
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Wayne Wilcox |
Adult Alexander Ashbrook |
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And an onstage choir of twenty |
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Synopsis
The Coram Hospital for Deserted
Children was established by royal charter in 1739. The play starts
three years later as it follows the story of two teenaged boys, one
well bred, one less so, who are discovering the joy of music. At
least one also discovers the joy of a young woman. A baby is born
and the young mother is told it is dead
Intertwined with this plot is a
second, in which desperate mothers pay men to bring unwanted or
can't be supported boys to the foundling home. Many do not make it
there, victims of work-house cruelty
Eight years later the story follows
two "Coram boys" in search of their parents
The Road to Broadway
Coram Boy came to Broadway
after two hugely successful
engagements at London's National Theater,
November 2005 to February 2006 and
November 2006 to January 2007
In the Movies
Miramax Films' screen version,
written and directed by Alan Parker, is to be released in 2011 |
