Broadway NewsThe Great Society Closes on Broadway November 30Robert Schenkkan’s sequel to his Tony-winning All The Way explores the end of Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency.
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Ruthie Fierberg
November 30, 2019
Marc Kudisch and Brian Cox
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The second play in Robert Schenkkan’s dramatic take on President Lyndon Baines Johnson, The Great Society plays its final performance November 30 at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont Theater. The production officially opened October 1.
Schenkkan’s All The Way bowed on Broadway in 2014, winning the Tony Award for Best Play and Best Actor in a Play for star Bryan Cranston. The Great Society starred Brian Cox (Succession) as LBJ and picks up where All The Way left off—with Johnson’s Presidential campaign in 1964. The drama chronicles his landslide victory but devolving presidency as the Vietnam War takes hold.
Cast and creative team of The Great SocietyJoseph Marzullo/WENN
The production also starred Grantham Coleman as Martin Luther King, Jr., three-time Tony nominee Marc Kudisch as Richard J. Daley, Tony nominee Richard Thomas as Hubert Humphrey, Tony nominee Gordon Clapp as J. Edgar Hoover, Tony nominee Bryce Pinkham as Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Tony winner Frank Wood as Senator Everett Dirksen, Marchánt Davis as Stokely Carmichael, Brian Dykstra as Adam Walkinsky, Barbara Garrick as Ladybird Johnson, Tony nominee David Garrison as Richard Nixon, Ty Jones as Reverend Ralph Abernathy, and Christopher Livingston as James Bevel and Jimmie Lee Jackson, Angela Pierce as Pat Nixon, Matthew Rauch as Robert McNamara, Nikkole Salter as Coretta Scott King, and Tramell Tillman as Bob Moses.
Ted Deasey and Robyn Kerr round out the company.
Directed by Bill Rauch, the production featured scenic design by three-time Tony nominee David Korins, costume design by Tony winner Linda Cho, lighting design by David Weiner, projection design by Victoria Sagady, and original music and sound design by Paul James Prendergast. Casting is by Daniel Swee.
