Much Ado About Nothing

Theatre

Name:	Delacorte Theater
Address:	81 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024

Production Information

Number of performances:	20
Opening date:	August 10, 1972
Closing date:	September 3, 1972

Opening Night Credits

Production Credits

	Person/Company	Credit
	Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival	Producer
	Joseph Papp	Producer
	Bernard Gersten	Associate Producer

	William Shakespeare	Playwright
	Peter Link	Music

	A.J. Antoon	Director
	Henry "Bootsie" Normand	Musical Director

	Donald Saddler	Choreographer

	Ming Cho Lee	Set Designer
	Theoni V. Aldredge	Costume Designer
	Martin Aronstein	Lighting Designer

	Merle Debuskey	Press Representative
	Bob Ullman	Press Representative

	John Beven	Stage Manager

	David Eidenberg	Production Supervisor

	Henry "Bootsie" Normand	Banjo
	Jimmie Young	Drums
	Peter Phillips	Piano
	Aaron Sachs	Sax
	Charles Lewis	Trumpet
	Sam Pilafin	Tuba

Cast

	Actor	Role
	David Anderson	Watch/ Townsperson
	Charles Bartlett	Reporter/ Sexton
	Anna Brennen	Townsperson
	Frederick Coffin	Borachio
	Marshall Efron	Balthasar
	Jack Gianino	Conrade
	Lou Gilbert	Antonio
	George Gugleotti	1st Watch
	Mark Hammer	Leonato
	Bette Henritze	Ursula
	Jeanne Hepple	Margaret
	Barnard Hughes	Dogberry
	Nina Jordan	Townsperson
	David Lenthall	2nd Watch
	J.J. Lewis	Townsperson
	Will Mackenzie	Verges
	Jerry Mayer	Don Juan
	Tom McDermott	Friar Francis
	James McGill	Watch/ Townsperson
	John Michalski	Watch/ Townsperson
	April Shawhan	Hero
	Lynne Taylor	Townsperson
	Glenn Walken	Claudio
	Sam Waterston	Benedick
	Douglass Watson	Don Pedro
	Kathleen Widdoes	Beatrice

Awards

		Award	Person / Company	Function
1	WON	1973 Hewes Design Award, Costume Design	Theoni V. Aldredge	Costume Designer
2	WON	1973 Obie Award, Distinguished Performance	Sam Waterston	Actor

Notes

Produced in cooperation with the City of New York Honorable John V. Lindsay Mayor Honorable August Heckscher administrator P.R.C.A the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.