![]() Aldredge ( costume design), and Martin Aronstein ( lighting design). The creative team included Santo Loquasto ( scenic design), Theoni V. Directed by Joseph Papp, the cast included Madeline Kahn as Chrissy, Robert Loggia as her husband Al, Charles Durning as her father Harold, Charlotte Rae as her mother Helen, and Mary Woronov as a dancer named Susan. The play opened on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Novemand closed on December 9, 1973, after 37 performances and 16 previews. As a result, the play was divided into three acts, to Rabe's dissatisfaction. Prior to staging the play at Lincoln Center the following year, Rabe added a scene and several speeches to the first act, expanding it considerably. Rabe was teaching at Villanova and the play's director, Robert Hedley, was chair of the theatre department. The play was first written and performed, in two acts, at Villanova University in 1972. She tries to resolve troubling issues in her life, including her mother who had wanted an abortion and memories of sexual abuse by her father. While working at the nightclub, she explores love and sex with a variety of unsuitable partners of both genders and forms a friendship with a gay neighbor. Desperation leads her to a job at a sleazy nightclub called Big Tom's Boom Boom Room. The play follows a young go-go dancer who has a difficult relationship with her parents.Ĭhrissy arrives in 1960s Philadelphia with the dream of becoming a successful dancer. In the Boom Boom Room is a play by David Rabe.
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