and Amy Irving. Viewed as "the season's ultimate snob ticket", the production ran from November 2006 to May 2007 with a combined total of 124 performances. In his review for The New York Times, Ben Brantley called the production "brave and gorgeous", adding that "I wouldn't call it [the play] a major work of art. In literary terms I wouldn't even rank it with Mr. Stoppard's best (in which I include the Broadway-bound Rock 'n' Roll). But as directed by Jack O'Brien and acted and designed by a stellar team of artisans, Utopia is a major work of theatrical craftsmanship, a luscious advertisement for the singular narrative seductiveness of drama." The production was nominated for ten Tony Awards and won seven, breaking the Tony record for the most awards given to a play. Characters and cast The following table indicates the roles played by the main cast in London, New York, and Moscow, respectively. Several principal actors played multiple roles in each of the three plays. Historical figures The play is well known for including a cast of more than 70 characters, many based on historical figures of the period. Major Characters Mikhail Bakunin Vissarion Belinsky Alexander Herzen Nikolay Ogarev Ivan Turgenev Minor Characters Konstantin Aksakov Louis Blanc Pyotr Chaadayev Nikolay Chernyshevsky Timofey Granovsky Georg Herwegh Ernest Charles Jones Gottfried Kinkel Lajos Kossuth Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin Karl Marx Giuseppe Mazzini Nikolai Polevoy Alexander Pushkin Arnold Ruge Stepan Shevyryov Nikolai Stankevich Malwida von Meysenbug Stanisław Gabriel Worcell Awards and nominations Awards 2007 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Play 2007 New York Drama Critics' Circle Best Play 2007 Tony Award for Best Play 2007 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Music for a Play (Mark Bennett) References Further reading External links The New York Times Reading list for The Coast of Utopia The New York Times Review: Part 1 - Voyage The New York Times Review: Part 2 - Shipwreck The New York Times Review: Part 3 - Salvage Official website of Voyage, Shipwreck, and Salvage at the Lincoln Center Theater Overview of London's production 'Radical Comedy', review of The Coast of Utopia in the Oxonian Review 2002 plays Broadway plays West End plays Drama Desk Award-winning plays New York Drama Critics' Circle Award winners Plays by Tom Stoppard Tony Award-winning plays Mikhail Bakunin