The run closed June 26, 1988
- Opened
- March 26, 1987
- Closed
- June 26, 1988
- Performances
- 525
- Previews
- 11
- Theatre
- Richard Rodgers Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 45th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Fences 1 more that season
| 2010 | Cort Theatre Revival · Kenny Leon | 88 perf. |
Who was in it10 named
James Earl Jones
Mary Alice
Ray Aranha
Charles Brown
Frankie R Faison
Karima Miller
Courtney B Vance
Billy Dee Williams
Lynne Thigpen
Roscoe Orman
0 of these 10 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 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
- Lloyd Richards
- Producer
- Carole Shorenstein Hays
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 Fences at all.
- No show page for Fences. 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.