Top Girls
Broadway Drama Previews
April 15 2008
Opened May 7 2008
Closed June 29 2008 Run
24 previews & 63 performances Producers
Manhattan Theatre Club
Creative
Caryl Churchill author
James Macdonald director
Laura Bauer costume design
Christopher Akerlind lighting design
Tom Pye scenic design
Darron L West sound design
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Opening Night Cast |
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Mary Catherine Garrison |
Patient Griselda
Jeanine
Kit
Shona |
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Mary Beth Hurt |
Louise
Waitress |
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Jennifer Ikeda |
Lady Nijo
Win |
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Elizabeth Marvel |
Marlene |
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Martha Plimpton |
Pope Joan
Angie |
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Ana Reeder |
Dull Gret
Nell |
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Marisa Tomei |
Isabella Bird
Joyce
Mrs Kidd |
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Synopsis
It's early 1980s Britain when Marlene
is promoted to lead the Top Girls Employment Agency. At a
celebratory dinner she is joined by several historical and
semi-historical female figures, among them a Pope, an explorer and a
consort to a Japanese Emperor. They discuss the difficulties of
being a successful woman in a man's world. The subsequent action
extends this dialogue to Marlene's present and past life as it
explores the effects success has on ones self and those around one
The Road to Broadway
Top Girls premiered at London's
Royal
Court Theatre on August 28, 1982. It came to New York's
Public
Theater later that year for a split run, December through
January 1983 and March through May 1983 |
