Theatre Register

American Buffalo, 1977

Shows · Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 1977

Original BroadwayEthel Barrymore Theatre 122 performances

The run closed June 11, 1977

Opened
February 16, 1977
Closed
June 11, 1977
Performances
122
Previews
13
Theatre
Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 144th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of American Buffalo 3 more that season

1983 Booth Theatre Revival · Arvin Brown 93 perf.
2008 Belasco Theatre Revival · Robert Falls 8 perf.
2022 Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Neil Pepe 101 perf.

Who was in it3 named

Robert Duvall
Kenneth Mcmillan
John Savage

0 of these 3 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 3 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director
Ulu Grosbard
Producer
Edgar Lansbury

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

What this page does not know

  • No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
  • No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
  • No recording is held for American Buffalo at all.
  • No show page for American Buffalo. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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