SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION James McDaniel James McMullan August 1990 Playbill

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Six Degrees of Separation August 1990 - Lincoln Center Theatre Playbill
The original Playbill for the
Lincoln Center Theatre Mitzi Newhouse opening.  Artwork by
James McMullan featured lead James McDaniel, who left the show show before it moved upstairs to the
Vivian Beaumont where Courtney B. Vance took over the role and the new artwork.
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Six Degrees of Separation
is a play written by American playwright John Guare that premiered in 1990. The play was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play.
The play explores the existential premise that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else in the world by a chain of no more than six acquaintances, thus, "six degrees of separation".
The play premiered Off-Broadway at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center, on May 16, 1990. Stockard Channing won an Obie Award for Best Actress for her performance. Guare won an Obie Award for his script.
The production transferred to the Vivian Beaumont Theater for its Broadway debut on November 8, 1990. The production closed on January 5, 1992 after 485 performances, directed by Jerry Zaks.
Kelly Bishop played the role of Ouisa as a replacement on Broadway, and Laura Linney made her Broadway debut as a replacement for the role of Tess. The original Broadway production was nominated for four Tony Awards, winning for Best Direction for Zaks