when did the first childs play come out
November 9, 1988
title: Child's Play (play) text: Child's Play (play) Child's Play is a stage play written by Robert Marasco. It opened on Broadway on 12 February 1970 at the Royale Theatre and ran for 342 performances, closing on 12 December. The play was produced by David Merrick and directed by Joseph Hardy, with settings by Jo Mielziner. The leading roles were taken by Pat Hingle, Fritz Weaver and Ken Howard. Marasco's only produced play, he initially wrote the script in 1966 under the title "The Dark". The atmosphere of the play, although not the plot, was derived from Marasco's experiences as a teacher of Latin and title: Child's Play (1988 film) text: Child's Play (1988 film) Child's Play is a 1988 American slasher film directed and co-written by Tom Holland, and produced by David Kirschner from a story by Don Mancini. It is the first film in the "Child's Play" series and the first installment to feature the character Chucky. It stars Catherine Hicks, Dinah Manoff, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, and Brad Dourif. Hicks plays a widowed mother who gives her son a doll for his birthday, unaware that the doll is possessed by the soul of an infamous serial killer. The film was released on November 9, 1988, and grossed more title: Child's Play (1988 film) text: than $44 million against a production budget of $9 million. Along with the film gaining a cult following, the box office success spawned a media franchise that includes a series of six sequels, merchandise, comic books and a remake film of the same name to be released in the summer of 2019. "Child's Play" was the only film in the series to be distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, as the rights to the series were sold to Universal Pictures in 1990, right before production on "Child's Play 2" started. On the night of November 9, 1988, Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif), a title: Child's Play (play) text: punch is thrown at Dobbs. Child's Play (play) Child's Play is a stage play written by Robert Marasco. It opened on Broadway on 12 February 1970 at the Royale Theatre and ran for 342 performances, closing on 12 December. The play was produced by David Merrick and directed by Joseph Hardy, with settings by Jo Mielziner. The leading roles were taken by Pat Hingle, Fritz Weaver and Ken Howard. Marasco's only produced play, he initially wrote the script in 1966 under the title "The Dark". The atmosphere of the play, although not the plot, was derived from Marasco's experiences as title: Child's Play (play) text: Greek at Regis High School, a highly regarded Jesuit school in Manhattan. The play was presented in London's West End in 1971, opening at the Queen's Theatre on 16 March. As on Broadway, the director and designer were, respectively, Hardy and Mielziner, with Laurence Harvey, Rupert Davies and Derek Fowlds in the cast. In 1972, Sidney Lumet directed a screen adaptation under the same title, starring James Mason, Robert Preston and Beau Bridges. The play centers on the rivalry between two faculty members at St. Charles, an exclusive Roman Catholic boarding school for boys. Joe Dobbs is an easy-going, well-liked