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Checking Out (play)

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Written by
  
Allen Swift

First performance
  
14 September 1976

Original language
  
English language

Place premiered
  
Longacre Theatre

Playwright
  
Allen Swift

Characters
  
Florence Grayson Bernard Applebaum Morris Applebaum Mr. Johnson Dr. Theodore Applebaum Dr. Sheldon Henning Gilbert Schmuel Axelrod

Date premiered
  
14 September 1976 (1976-09-14)

Checking Out is a 1976 Broadway play written by Allen Swift. It opened on September 14, 1976 at the Longacre Theatre and closed on September 25, 1976 after 16 performances.

Contents

Original production

The show was directed by Jerry Adler, scenery David Jenkins, lighting Ken Billington, costumes Carol Luiken, production stage manager Murray Gitlin, and press by Susan Bloch.

The opening night cast starred Joan Copeland (Florence Grayson), Hy Anzell (Bernard Applebaum), Allen Swift (Morris Applebaum), Jonathan Moore (Mr. Johnson), Mason Adams (Dr. Theodore Applebaum), Larry Bryggman (Dr. Sheldon Henning), Tazewell Thompson (Gilbert), and Michael Gorrin (Schmuel Axelrod).

Setting

Morris Applebaum's apartment on West 57th Street.

Act I
  • Scene 1 — An April morning
  • Scene 2 — 530 am the next day
  • Scene 3 — Four hours later
    • Act II — A few days later, morning

    Plot

    An aging Yiddish stage actor decides to schedule and stage-manage his own death.

    References

    Checking Out (play) Wikipedia
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