The Great Society
December 5, 2014 - January 4, 2014
Bagley Wright Theater
The minute you gain power, you start to lose it. Robert Schenkkan’s second installation of the LBJ plays depicts the larger-than-life politician’s tragic fall from grace, as his legislative war on poverty is overshadowed by the escalation of the Vietnam War.
Cast and Production
Cast
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Kenajuan Bentley
Stokely Carmichael/John Lewis/Ensemble
Wayne Carr
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy/Charles Robb/Ensemble
Danforth Comins
J. Edgar Hoover/Ensemble
Richard Elmore
Vice President Hubert Humphrey/Ensemble
Peter Frechette
Gov. George Wallace/Sherriff Jim Clark/Richard M. Nixon/ John McCone/Norman Morrison/Ensemble
Jonathan Haugen
Sen. Everett Dirksen/“Deke” DeLoach/Colonel Al Lingo/Clark Clifford/Ensemble
Michael J. Hume
James Bevel/Jimmie Lee Jackson/Ensemble
Reginald André Jackson
Bob Moses/Rev. Dobynes/Hosea Williams/Marquette Frye/Ensemble
Kevin Kenerly
Sally Childress/Coretta Scott King/Ensemble
Bakesta King
Lady Bird Johnson/Ensemble
Terri McMahon
Robert McNamara/Rep. Wilbur Mills/Ensemble
Mark Murphey
Adam Walinsky/General William Westmoreland/Seymore Trammel/Stanley Levison/Gardner Ackley/Ensemble
Michael Patten
Sherriff’s Auxiliary/Muriel Humphrey/Lynda Bird Johnson/Pat Nixon/Ensemble
Caroline Shaffer
President Lyndon Baines Johnson
Jack Willis
Rev. Ralph Abernathy/Rep. Adam Clayton Powell/Ensemble
Tyrone Wilson
Dr. James Z. Appel/Richard J. Daley/General Earle Wheeler/Ensemble
Michael Winters
Understudy: Robert McNamara/Rep. Wilbur Mills/Ensemble
Peter Lohnes
Understudy: President Lyndon Baines Johnson
Mark Murphey
Understudy: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Reginald André Jackson
Production
Scenic Designer
Christopher Acebo
Costume Designer
Deborah M. Dryden
Lighting Designer
David Weiner
Projection & Video Designer
Shawn Sagady
Composer & Sound Designer
Paul James Prendergast
Dramaturg
Tom Bryant
Associate Costume Designer
Sarah Smith
Fight Director
U. Jonathan Toppo
Associate Director
Nicole A. Watson
Voice & Text Director
Rebecca Clark Carey
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