American Buffalo
Broadway Drama Previews
October 31 2008
Opened November 17 2009
Closed November 23 2008
Run 20 previews & 8 performances Producers
Elliot Martin, Ben Sprecher, Louise Forlenza,
Bryan Bantry, Michael S Rosenberg, et al
Creative
David Mamet author
Robert Falls director
Santo Loquasto costume design & scenic design
Brian MacDevitt lighting design
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Opening Night Cast |
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Cedric the Entertainer |
Donny Dubrow |
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John Leguizamo |
Walter "Teacher" Cole |
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Haley Joel Osment |
Bobby |
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Synopsis
Got a nickel? These guys want it
Down and out and not really knowing
it, Junk shop owner Donny makes plans with Bobby to heist a coin
collection. For whatever his motivation, Teach doesn't want Bobby to
go along
Broadway Show History
American Buffalo premiered
at the
Ethel
Barrymore Theater in February 1977 in a production directed by
Ulu Grosbard; Robert Duvall, Kenneth McMillan and and John Savage
starred. The Arvin Brown-helmed 1983 revival at the
Booth
Theater starred Al Pacino, James Hayden and J J Johnston
In the Movies
We missed the film, actually had no
idea there was one. Dennis Franz as Donny teamed up with Dustin
Hoffman as Teach back in the 1996 Michael Corrente directed cinema
version
Notes
The third Broadway revival of Mamet's 1977 caper
drama, with Laurence Fishburne as Donny Dubrow, was due on the
boards in Spring 2005 with Daniel Sullivan directing. Whatever the
situation was back then, the production didn't make it to Broadway
after all and Mr Sullivan went off to direct
Julius Caesar
instead
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