The successful off-Broadway run is ironic, because Jitney is the only one of the 10 Pittsburgh Cycle plays not to appear on Broadway, presumably because Wilson's previous play had lost money, making investors leery. It closed on September 10, but only because another play was coming in, when it moved to the Union Square Theater. Finally Jitney arrived in New York, off-Broadway at the Second Stage Theatre on April 25, 2000. Over the next four years there were up to 20 productions nation-wide, many with the same core cast as in Pittsburgh, such as that at the Crossroads Theatre in New Jersey in spring 1997, directed by Walter Dallas, and in fall 1998, again directed by McClinton.Īlong the way, Wilson worked further on it in spurts. In response, Wilson came back to Pittsburgh in 1996 to re-write it extensively for what can only be called its second premiere, directed by Marion McClinton-the first Pittsburgh Cycle premiere not to be directed by Lloyd Richards.
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But Jitney then remained in Wilson's drawer while he sent a series of plays on to Broadway, until Eddie Gilbert, artistic director of the Pittsburgh Public Theater, read the 1979 script and asked to give it a full professional production. That was followed by a separate production at Penumbra Theatre in St. Jitney was written in 1979 and first produced at the small Allegheny Repertory Theatre, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1982, when Wilson was able to take his mother to see it, traveling by jitney. The eighth in his "Pittsburgh Cycle", this play is set in a worn-down gypsy cab station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in early autumn 1977. Jitney is a play in two acts by August Wilson. HIDES (HID) MOB MEDICAL SCAM FOR ORGANSÄ¡977, a worn-down gypsy cab station in Pittsburgh's Hill District STOP HIGHMARK GENOCIDE FOR ORGANS.A JITNEY FOR LIFE.BELLEVUE 15202.Text 41.GET MARTY.IT'S LE-JIT.D.A.