"Angels In America" consists of two parts: Part One -- Millennium Approaches and Part Two -- Perestroika. Millennium played a regular eight show a week schedule for about six months while Kushner finished rewrites on Perestroika (fyi --he went to the NYU Tisch grad program and used the students to rehearse and workshop the changes; Debra Messing played Harper and Ben Schenkman played Roy Cohn -- both were MFA students at the time).
Once Perestroika was ready, the Broadway cast rehearsed it during the day and then performed Millennium at night and when it was ready they went to the following rep schedule:
Monday night: Millennium
Tuesday night: Perestroika
Wednesday Matinee: Millennium
Wednesday night: Perestroika
Thursday night: Millennium
Friday night: Perestroika
Saturday matinee: Millennium
Saturday night: Perestroika
Sunday: Dark
This allowed you to see the entire play on consecutive nights or in one marathon all-day session on Wednesdays or Saturdays if you liked (you bought each ticket separately, so if you only wanted to see part I or only Part II, you had that option as well).
Each part had a running time in excess of three hours, resulting in tons of overtime for the union stage hands (who dubbed the show the "cash machine") and eventually leading to the Broadway run closing after a year and a half at a loss of $1.1 million (later recouped on the road).
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Updated On: 3/13/05 at 03:47 AM
