Frankenstein
Palace Theatre
Previews Began: December 9, 1980
Opening Night: January 4, 1981
Closing Night: January 4, 1981
Playwright: Victor Gialanella
Music: Richard Peaslee
A Swiss scientist in the mid-1800s creates a living, but horrible-looking, creature who terrorizes the town in his quest for love in Victor Gialanella’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel.
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Dennis Bacigalupi Peter Schmidt
John Carradine DeLacey
David Dukes Victor Frankenstein
John Glover Henry Clerval
Keith Jochim The Creature
Richard Kneeland Lionel Mueller
Jill P. Rose Justine Moritz
Scott Schwartz William Frankenstein
Douglas Seale Alphonse Frankenstein
John Seitz Hans Metz
Dianne Wiest Elizabeth Lavenza
Kate Wilkinson Frau Mueller
Understudies: Leslie Barrett (Alphonse Frankenstein, Lionel Mueller, DeLacey), Michael Davidson (William Frankenstein), Anne Kerry (Elizabeth Lavenza, Justine Moritz), Barbara Lester (Frau Mueller), Eric Uhler (Hans Metz, Peter Schmidt), Stephen Van Benschoten (The Creature), Mark Winkworth (Victor Frankenstein, Henry Clerval)