Performances
It was first produced as a concept album on Paramount Records PAS-9000 by Stephen Schwartz in 1971. A concert version ran eight performances at The Playwrights Unit. Lineberger's fully scripted musical play with spoken dialogue, directed by Chuck Gnys was produced at the Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, New York, November 5-29, 1970. Facing a taxi strike and the dubious support of the local Hell's Angels, which adopted Joan as their warrior princess, the production had 16 performances Off-off-Broadway at the Anderson Theatre, directed by Gnys and produced by Haila Stoddard and Neal Du Brock with a cast that included Gretchen Corbett, F. Murray Abraham, Richard Bright ,and Janet Sarno. Smoke Rise performed all the singing, while the actors handled the dialogue.
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“This play holds the season’s record [for early closing], thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence it ran just five performances too many.”
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