<P> The play opened on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on March 20 , 1988 , closing after 777 performances on January 27 , 1990 . It was produced by Stuart Ostrow and directed by John Dexter and starred John Lithgow as Gallimard and BD Wong as Song Liling . David Dukes , Anthony Hopkins , Tony Randall , and John Rubinstein played Gallimard at various times during the original run . A highly unusual staging featuring Puccini 's music and the Kazakh countertenor Erik Kurmangaliev in the title role was undertaken by Roman Viktyuk in Russia in 1990 . </P>
<P> The play opened on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on March 20 , 1988 , closing after 777 performances on January 27 , 1990 . It was produced by Stuart Ostrow and directed by John Dexter and starred John Lithgow as Gallimard and BD Wong as Song Liling . David Dukes , Anthony Hopkins , Tony Randall , and John Rubinstein played Gallimard at various times during the original run . A highly unusual staging featuring Puccini 's music and the Kazakh countertenor Erik Kurmangaliev in the title role was undertaken by Roman Viktyuk in Russia in 1990 . </P>
who played the leading man role in m. butterfly 's 1988 broadway production
who played the leading man role in m. butterfly 's 1988 broadway production
John Lithgow
John Lithgow