The Gin Game (Original 2nd cast)

The original 1977 Broadway premiere run of D.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy 'The Gin Game' entered a highly successful new commercial chapter at the John Golden Theatre when a stellar "Second Cast" took over the central, card-shaking roles. The raw, tragicomic narrative turns a simple deck of playing cards into a savage mirror for human isolation and corporate abandonment, tracking two elderly nursing home residents whose gin rummy games disintegrate into psychological warfare. Staged under Mike Nichols’s precise original direction, this casting extension maintained the script's raw, unvarnished dramatic realism.