The run closed November 7, 1982
- Opened
- September 9, 1982
- Closed
- November 7, 1982
- Performances
- 69
- Previews
- 11
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 182nd 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. |
| 1980 | Ambassador Theatre Return-Engagement · Talley Beatty | 149 perf. |
Who was in it18 named
Al Green
Patti Labelle
Julius Richard Brown
Nora Cole
Jamil K Garland
Elijah Gill
L Michael Gray
Cynthia Henry
The Bobby Hill
Rufus E Jackson
Elmore James
Linda James
Tommi Johnson
Janice Nunn Nelson
Dwayne Phelps
Quincella
Kiki Shepard
Marilynn Winbush
0 of these 18 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
- Barry & Fran Weissler
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.