If my count is right, of the 26 original-cast members, 12 appeared in the film. One Broadway replacement, John Cullum, played the role in which he'd been a replacement. As noted by Haberville, Donald Madden, who never appeared in the show on Broadway or on tour, played John Dickinson, certainly a major role. A bit less major but still important — and also noted by Haberville — the film had Stephen Nathan, not a vet of any incarnation of the stage production, as the Courier.
Patrick Hines, who played Samuel Chase in the film, played Dickinson on the bus-and-truck tour and was a replacement Dickinson on the first national.
James Noble, a Broadway replacement as Hancock, was Witherspoon in the film. |
