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Children of a Lesser God
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 18, 2006
Closed Apr 9, 2006
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Mark Medoff's 1980 Tony Award-winning play Children of a Lesser God is a poignant love story about the lengths two people will travel to bridge the gap between their worlds of silence and sound. The show opened on Broadway on March 30, 1980 and ran for 887 performances before closing over two years later on May 16, 1982. The movie adaptation, released in 1978, received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Picture.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Connelly Theater
220 E 4th St
New York, NY 10009


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

The Bratters aren't the only troubled onstage newlyweds in town. Forty-four blocks south and several avenues east of the Cort Theater, Sarah Norman and James Leeds are battling far more serious issues than a hole in the skylight and wacky neighbors. They're trying to navigate barely charted territory, discovering whether or not a hearing person and a profoundly deaf person -- one who neither speaks nor reads lips -- can co-exist in the already rocky sea called marriage.

Mark Medoff's Children of a Lesser God played for nearly 900 performances on Broadway in the early 1980s, winning the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards before Hollywood transformed it into a major motion pic[...]


Reviewed by Brian Scott Lipton on Mar 20, 2006

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