Theatre Register

Your Arms Too Short to Box With God, 1980

Shows · Ambassador Theatre, 1980

Return-Engagement BroadwayAmbassador Theatre 149 performances

The run closed October 12, 1980

Opened
June 2, 1980
Closed
October 12, 1980
Performances
149
Previews
4
Theatre
Ambassador Theatre

Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 116th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Your Arms Too Short to Box With God 2 more that season

1976 Lyceum Theatre Original · Talley Beatty 429 perf.
1982 Alvin Theatre Return-Engagement · Talley Beatty 69 perf.

Who was in it19 named

Adrian Bailey
Julius Richard Brown
Sheila Ellis
Jamil K Garland
Elijah Gill
William Keebler Hardy Jr
Jennifer Yvette Holliday
Linda James
Garry Q Lewis
Linda Morton
Kiki Shepard
Leslie Hardesty Sisson
Jai Oscar St John
Ray Stephens
Quincella Swyningan
Faruma S Williams
Marilynn Winbush
Linda E Young

1 of these 19 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 18 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
Talley Beatty
Choreographer
Talley Beatty
Producer
Tom Mallow

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 Your Arms Too Short to Box With God at all.
  • No show page for Your Arms Too Short to Box With God. 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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