Any Wednesday (play)
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| Any Wednesday | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Muriel Resnik |
| Directed by | Henry Kaplan |
| Date premiered | February 18, 1964 |
| Place premiered | Music Box Theatre, New York City |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | sex comedy |
| Setting | A garden apartment in the East Sixties, Manhattan. July. |
Any Wednesday is a 1964 American stage play by Muriel Resnik. It ran for 983 performances from 1964 to 1966, making it one of the most successful comedies on Broadway in the 1960s,[1] and was turned into a feature film of the same name in 1966.
The play's star, Sandy Dennis, won a Tony Award for her performance; William Goldman called it "one of the personal triumphs of the decade."[2] It was also an early success in the career of Gene Hackman.[3][4]
The show had a tortured history. The script began as a short piece for the Actors Studio to use as a rehearsal scene before being expanded. It went through four different directors, and star Michael Rennie left the cast, being replaced at short notice by Don Porter.[5]
Amanda Barrie played the lead role in the London production which was less successful.[6]
- Sandy Dennis as Ellen Gordon
- Don Porter as John Cleves
- Gene Hackman as Cass Henderson
- Rosemary Murphy as Dorothy Cleves