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Five years later, several endless rewrites and several productions later, the new play "The Great Society" arrives on Broadway.
Producer Jeffrey Richards announced on Thursday that he would present a 12-week play from September 6 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (which, though located at the Lincoln Center, is considered a Broadway home).
The game will be performed by Brian Cox ("Succession") as President Johnson and the production will be directed by Bill Rauch, who also directed "All the Way". (Jack Willis and Susan Rome played in an Arena Stage scene in Washington.)
The cast will feature Marc Kudisch ("Finding Neverland") in the role of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, Grantham Coleman ("Lots of Noise for Nothing") in the role of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Richard Thomas ("The little foxes ") as Hubert H. Humphrey, Bryce Pinkham (" Guide to Love and Murder for a Gentleman ") as Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Frank Wood (" Side Man ") as a Senator Everett Dirksen and Gordon Clapp ("Glengarry Glen Ross") as Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover.
"All the Way", which starred Bryan Cranston both on stage and during a subsequent television adaptation, ended in November 1964, when Johnson, who became president as a result of the film. badbadination of John F. Kennedy, was elected for a full term. "The Great Society" follows Johnson until March 1968, when he announces that he will not seek re-election.
"It tells the high summits of Big Society programs and the growing tragedy in Vietnam," said Schenkkan, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1992 for "The Kentucky Cycle". "It's an extraordinarily dramatic and urgent time – in many ways, I think it's the story behind our current political crisis."
"" All the way "is a drama," he added, "and" The big company "is a tragedy."
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