The Boys in the Band
The Boys in the Band, copyright © 1968, 1996 by Mart Crowley. Reprinted with permission from Alyson Publications.
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Laurence Luckinbill (Hank), Keith Prentice (Larry). Reuben Greene (Bernard), and Cliff Gorman (Emory) in The Boys in the Band, at Theater Four, 1968. (Photograph reprinted with permission from the John Willis Theatre World/Screen World Archive.)
The Boys in the Band was first presented Off-Broadway at Theater Four on Sunday, April 14, 1968. It was produced by Richard Barr and Charles Woodward, and directed by Robert Moore. It was designed by Peter Harvey, and the Administrative Director was Barry Plaxen.The General Manager was Michael Kasdan, the press agents were David Rothenberg and Lawrence Schneider, and the stage managers were Charles Kindl and Richard Foltz. The photographer was Friedman-Abeles.
Cast
| Michael | Kenneth Nelson |
| Donald | Frederick Combs |
| Emory | Cliff German |
| Larry | Keith Prentice |
| Hank | Laurence Luckinbill |
| Bernard | Reuben Greene |
| Cowboy | Robert La Tourneaux |
| Alan | Peter White |
| Harold | Leonard Frey |
| UNDERSTUDIES: | |
| Donald, Larry, Cowboy | William Leet |
| Michael | Eric James |
| Hank, Alan | Jered Mickey |
| Bernard | Bob Broadway |
| Harold, Emory | Page Johnson |
The play is divided into two acts. The action is continuous and occurs one evening within the time necessary to perform the play.
Description of Characters
MICHAEL: Thirty, average face, smartly groomed.
DONALD: Twenty-eight, medium blond, Wholesome American good looks.
EMORY: Thirty-three, small, frail, very plain.
LARRY: Twenty-nine with a starkly simple sense of individual style and color in his clothes. Dark eyes, dark hair, extremely handsome.
HANK: Thirty-two, tall, solid, athletic, attractive.
BERNARD: Tiventy-eight, Negro, tall, gaunt, nice-looking, dresser in Ivy-League clothes.
COWBOY: Twenty-two, light blond, muscle-bound, too pretty.
HAROLD: Thirty-two, dark, lean, strong limbs, unusual semitic face.
ALAN: Thirty, aristocratic Anglo-Saxon features.