The Audience

Theatre: Gerald Schoenfeld
Status: Closed
(February 14, 2015 - June 28, 2015 )
  • Rehearsal: January 19, 2015
  • Preview: February 14, 2015
  • Open: March 8, 2015
  • Close: June 28, 2015
Play - American Premiere
Running Time: 2hrs 20mins

For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace -- a meeting like no other in British public life -- it is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Not even to their spouses. "The Audience" breaks this contract of silence – and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister has used these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional -- sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive.

For The Record:

"The Audience" played London's West End in Spring 2013, starring Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II

Total Gross: $22,072,987
Average Weekly Gross: $1,103,649
Total Attendance: 146,613
Average Weekly Attendance: 101%

Staff & Creative Team

General Manager:

Bespoke Theatricals LLC

Technical Supervisor:

Hudson Theatrical Associates

Casting Director:

Daniel Swee at Lincoln Center Theater

Casting Director - Children:

Nora Brennan Casting

Advertising Representative:

AKA NYC

Press Agent:

Boneau/Bryan-Brown

Production Stage Manager:

Jill Cordle

Author:

Peter Morgan

Director:

Stephen Daldry

Settings & Costumes:

Bob Crowley

Production Design:

Bob Crowley

Lighting:

Rick Fisher

Original Music:

Paul Englishby

Cast

Queen Elizabeth 02/14/2015 - 06/28/2015
Queen's Equerry 02/14/2015 - 06/28/2015
Anthony Eden 02/14/2015 - 06/28/2015
Harold Wilson 02/14/2015 - 06/28/2015
David Cameron 02/14/2015 - 06/28/2015
John Major 02/14/2015 - 06/28/2015
Margaret Thatcher 02/14/2015 - 06/28/2015
Gordon Brown 02/14/2015 - 06/28/2015
Winston Churchill 02/14/2015 - 06/28/2015