Frost / Nixon
Broadway Drama Previews
March 31 2007
Opened April 22 2007
Limited run to August 19 2007 Run
23 previews & 137 performances Producer
Arielle Tepper Madover, Matthew Byam Shaw,
Robert Fox, Act Productions, David Binder, et al
Creative
Peter Morgan author
Michael Grandage director
Christopher Oram costume design
Neil Austin lighting design
Christopher Oram scenic design
Adam Cork sound design
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Opening Night Cast |
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Frank Langella |
Richard Nixon |
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Michael Sheen |
David Frost |
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Remy Auberjonois |
John Birt |
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Dennis Cockrum
Anthony Hagopian
Roxanna Hope |
Ensemble |
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Shira Gregory |
Evonne Goolagong |
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Corey Johnson |
Jack Brennan |
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Stephen Kunken |
Jim Reston |
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Stephen Rowe |
Swifty Lazar
Mike Wallace |
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Triney Sandoval |
Manolo Sanchez |
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Armand Schultz |
Bob Zelnick |
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Sonya Walger |
Caroline Cushing |
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Synopsis
Simply the 1977 interviews of former
President Richard Nixon by talk show host David Frost. Simply? No,
as many in the country were transfixed during the four nights the
interviews aired that May
Besides enactments of the interviews
themselves, the play recounts the behind the scenes events leading
up to the interviews pitting two troubled men against each other. Mr
Nixon, trying to rehabilitate his image a few years post-Watergate
thinks Frost will be a walkover; Frost, at loose ends after the
ending of his talk show, plans to challenge the ex-President in
order to restore his journalistic reputation
On Television
David Frost paid Richard Nixon
$600,000 plus a cut of the syndication profits to tape a series of
interviews that were compiled into four programs. They were
televised over four weeks in May 1977
The Road to Broadway
Frost / Nixon's world premiere
was an August to October 2006 run at London's
Donmar
Warehouse. The production then had a November 2006 to February
2007 engagement in the West End at the Gielgud Theater before making
the transfer to Broadway
In the Movies
Ron Howard was announced to direct
the screen version of Frost / Nixon in September 2006, just a
couple of weeks into the play's run at the Donmar. Released in 2008,
Mr Langella and Mr Sheen reprised the lead roles, with Kevin Bacon
as Jack Brennan and Oliver Platt as Bob Zelnick |
