The National Theatre of Great Britain's acclaimed production of Jumpers by
Tom Stoppard, directed by David
Leveaux, will open at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 West 47th Street) on Sunday,
April 25, 2004. Preview performances will begin April 6th. The production will play for 20 weeks
only.
Jumpers on Broadway will be produced by Boyett Ostar Productions, Nederlander
Presentations, Inc., Freddy DeMann, Jean Doumanian, Stephanie McClelland, and Arielle Tepper.
The cast of Jumpers is led by Olivier Award-winners Simon
Russell Beale and Essie Davis, both making their Broadway debuts,
along with other cast members from the National Theatre, including Nicky Henson (Archie) and John
Rogan (Crouch).
Tom Stoppard's Jumpers is an outrageous comedy, crackling murder mystery, and musical
spectacle, all at once. The elements include an ill-fated moon landing, a naked lady on a swing, a
dead body in the closet, a pyramid of acrobats, an onstage band and a trained tortoise on the loose.
George Moore (Simon Russell Beale), a professor of philosophy, is struggling to write a speech about
moral absolutes and the existence of God, while coping with the distraction of his mentally unbalanced
wife, Dorothy (Essie Davis), a musical comedy star, and the murder investigation being conducted in
their bedroom.
Stoppard is the winner of three Tony® Awards for Best Play (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are
Dead, Travesties, The Real Thing) and an Academy Award® for Best Screenplay
for his co-authorship of Shakespeare in Love. Leveaux has been nominated for four Tony®
Awards as Best Director (A Moon for the Misbegotten, Anna Christie, The Real
Thing, Nine). Jumpers reunites Stoppard and Leveaux for the first time
since the 2000 Tony® Award-winning revival of The Real Thing.
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Jumpers originally premiered in 1972 for the National at the Old Vic, in a production
that starred Diana Rigg and Michael Hordern. A Broadway production of Jumpers opened
in 1974 at the Billy Rose Theatre (now the Nederlander Theatre). David Leveaux's production opened this
summer at the National and recently transferred to the Piccadilly Theatre in London's West End, where
it will play through March 6, 2004.
The production features set designs by Vicki Mortimer, costumes by Nicky Gillibrand, lighting by Paule
Constable, aerial choreography by Aidan Treays, music by Corin Buckeridge, sound design by John Leonard
for Aura and video design by Dick Straker & Sven Ortel for Mesmer.
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Performances at:
The Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Running Time:
2 hrs 30 min
Cast and Credits
Press Reviews
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