A Doll's Life

Cast Highlights

Act One

• Prologue .... Nora, Company
• A Woman Alone .... Nora, Otto, Conductor, Company
• Letter to the Children .... Nora
• New Year's Eve .... Eric, Johan, Dr. Berg, Mr. Gustafson
• Stay With Me, Nora .... Otto, Nora
• Arrival .... Astrid and Company
• Loki and Baldur .... Otto and Singers
• You Interest Me .... Johan
• Departure .... Astrid and Company
• Letter from Klemnacht .... Astrid
• Learn to Be Lonely .... Nora
• Rats and Mice and Fish .... Women
• Jailer, Jailer
• Letter to the Children (Reprise) .... Nora and Women
• Excerpts from Loki and Baldur .... Company
• Rare Wines .... Eric, Nora

Act Two

• [Entr'acte .... Orchestra]*
• No More Mornings .... Nora
• There She Is .... Johan, Eric, Otto
• Power .... Nora
• Letter to the Children (Reprise) .... Nora
• At Last .... Johan
• The Grand Cafe .... Company
• Finale .... Company

Additional Musical Numbers Lists

The numbers listed in the playbill as "Prologue" and "Finale" were complete numbers involving singing and a little dialogue. They were not medleys of material heard elsewhere in the show.

Main Run

• Mark Hellinger Theatre (New York, NY)
  9/23/1982 - 9/26/1982

Tryout Dates

• A
  Ahmanson Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
  6/15/1982 - 8/21/1982 [Previews started June 11 or 12]

Commercial Recordings

• Original Broadway Cast (1982)

Private Recordings

• Original Broadway Cast (1982)
  Michael Vita , David Vosburgh , Norman A. Large , Penny Orloff , George Hearn
• Original Broadway Cast (Pre-Broadway First Preview) (6/11/1982)
  Betsy Joslyn , Michael Vita , David Vosburgh , Norman A. Large , Penny Orloff
• Original Broadway Cast (Preview) (9/1/1982)
  David Vosburgh , Norman A. Large , Penny Orloff , George Hearn , Kimberly Stern

Private Recordings

• Original Broadway Cast (9/26/1982)
  Gordon Bovinet, David Seaman, Lisa Peters, Patricia Parker, Barbara Lang

Archival Recordings

• Original Broadway Cast (TOFT video) (1982)
  Gordon Bovinet, David Seaman, Lisa Peters, Patricia Parker, Barbara Lang