Doonesbury (musical)
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| Music | Elizabeth Swados |
| Lyrics | Garry Trudeau |
| Book | Garry Trudeau |
| Basis | Doonesbury series of comic strips by playwright |
| Productions | 1983 Broadway |
Doonesbury is a musical with a book and lyrics by Garry Trudeau and music by Elizabeth Swados.
Based on Trudeau's comic strip of the same name, it focuses on that point in its history when the primary characters graduate from college and enter the workforce after more than a decade of being perpetual students and commune-dwellers.
Trudeau took a nearly two-year sabbatical from writing the strip to develop the project.
After twenty previews, the Broadway production, directed by Jacques Levy and choreographed by Margo Sappington, opened on November 21, 1983 at the Biltmore Theatre, where it ran for 104 performances. The cast included Mark Linn-Baker as Mark Slackmeyer, Keith Szarabajka as B.D., Gary Beach as Uncle Duke, Lauren Tom as Honey Huan, Kate Burton as J.J. Caucus, Barbara Andres as Joanie Caucus, Reathal Bean as Roland Headley, Ralph Bruneau as Mike Doonesbury, Albert Macklin as Zonker and Laura Dean as Boopsie.
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