All the Way

by Robert Schenkkan

“All the Way” originated at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where it premiered in 2012 with a different cast. Bill Rauch, artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, will direct the Broadway transfer. Bryan Cranston, who recently completed his run in the TV’s drama series “Breaking Bad,” will make his Broadway Debut in role as President Lyndon Johnson.

 

 

Run

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Dates	Type & Version	Theatre
Mar 06, 2014 – Jun 29, 2014	Musical, Original	Neil Simon, New York, NY

 

Cast

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Rob Campbell	Governor George Wallace
Bryan CranstonBroadway debut	President Lyndon B. Johnson
Brandon J. Dirden	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Michael McKean	J. Edgar Hoover
John McMartin	Richard Russell
Robert Petkoff	Senator Hubert Humphrey
Roslyn Ruff	Coretta Scott King
	Fannie Lou Hamer

 

Synopsis

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All the Way, begins in the hours straight after Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963 as Johnson is winging toward Washington on Air Force One. He knows he has to hit the tarmac running: the next election is less than a year away, and after three years of being virtually powerless as Kennedy’s vice president, Johnson needs to quickly show that he has the leadership qualities necessary to bring the country through a troubled time.

Concentrating on two parallel story lines — Johnson’s fight to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and his manoeuvring to secure a full term as president — the play dangles more subplots than a Congressional bill has earmarks: the sordid attempts by J. Edgar Hoover (Michael McKean) to discredit the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ( Brandon J. Dirden) the infamous killing of three young men seeking to register black voters in Mississippi; the battle to seat black delegates from Mississippi at the 1964 Democratic National Convention that followed; and even comparatively minor incidents like the arrest of Johnson’s longtime aide-de-camp, Walter Jenkins (Christopher Liam Moore), for having sex in a men’s room.

 

Robert Schenkkan Jr.

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(b 19 March 1953) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor, perhaps most recognizable as the character of Lieutenant Commander Dexter Remmick in Star Trek: The Next Generation. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1992 for his work The Kentucky Cycle.

Schenkkan is the author of ten full-length plays. By the Waters of Babylon premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in February, 2005. The play is unrelated to the Stephen Vincent Benét short story By the Waters of Babylon or its subsequent adaptation. Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates premiered at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in December 2005. The Marriage of Miss Hollywood and King Neptune premiered at the University of Texas at Austin in November 2005. And The Devil and Daniel Webster premiered at the Seattle Children’s Theatre in February 2006. Schenkkan’s All The Way, a remarkable play about the behind-the-scenes political maneuvering of President Lyndon Baines Johnson in order to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival on July 28, 2012. Schenkkan describes this work as a play about “the morality of politics and power.”

Schenkkan’s film work includes: The Quiet American, directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Michael Caine (Oscar nomination). For television he wrote the miniseries, The Andromeda Strain (A&E, 2009), four episodes of The Pacific (HBO, 2010), Spartacus (USA Network, 2006) and Crazy Horse (TNT). In 2005, he was hired by Sony Pictures to develop a script based on Marvel Comics’ Killraven.Schenkkan was also named as the writer for the adaptation of the comic book Incognito published by the Marvel imprint Icon Comics.

Creative

 

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Produced by	Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel and Louise Gund
Written by	Robert Schenkkan
Directed by	Bill Rauch
Scenic Design by	Christopher Acebo
Costume Design by	Deborah M. Dryden
Lighting Design by	Jane Cox
Sound Design by	Paul James Prendergast
Projection Design by	Wendall K. Harrington
Video Design by	Shawn Sagady

 

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