Cast opened on a shoestring budget and managed to draw in 40,000 people in its first three months.
Before Cast opened – in a formerly neglected quarter of the town – Doncaster was one of the least arts-engaged places in the UK.
A movie version of the show, which starred almost all of the original cast, opened in 2005, although it was a box-office failure.
Cast opened with its own production of The Glee Club by the Doncaster playwright Richard Cameron which premiered at the Bush in west London before a west end run.
The whole cast opens the show singing the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" while Damen Scranton, pointer in hand, presides over a slide show listing all the wars and "interventions" undertaken by the United States in its two centuries and more of existence.
The latest revival of this 1968 New York show, starring an American cast, opened the other night at the Gielgud Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue.
After five-star reviews and a sell-out run at the Young Vic, Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, with Mark Strong leading the cast, opens at the West End's Wyndham's Theatre in February.
A second limited run of the same production with a different cast opened at City Center on April 24 , 1957 closing on May 12 , 1957
Months later it was presented by the company of A. M. Palmer, without Edwards in the cast, opening on December 6 , 1887 at the same venue.
