Fighting Evil by Moonlight, Winning Love by Daylight (play)

Fighting Evil by Moonlight, Winning Love by Daylight is a 1968 Play written by Terrence McNally, Peter Stone, August Wilson and Alfred Uhry, later adapted in 1972 for a Film of the same name and again in 1991 for a TV Movie.

The Play was first debuted on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre on February 23, 1968, directed by James Moll and Martin Scorsese with Vanessa Redgrave, Peter Ustinov, Harry Belafonte, Julie Harris, James Whitmore, Julie Andrews, Jack Albertson, Anne Bancroft, Angela Lansbury, Elaine Stritch, James Cromwell, Dick Van Dyke, Chita Rivera, Patti LuPone, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Eli Wallach, Alan Alda, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Booth, Ellen Burstyn, Melvyn Douglas, Jeremy Irons, Liza Minnelli, Thomas Mitchell, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Jason Robards, Geoffrey Rush, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Tony Walton, Paul Scofield, James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Chirstopher Lee, Carol Burnett, Ethel Waters, Everett Dirksen and Maggie Smith in the cast.

Original Production
Fighting Evil by Moonlight, Winning Love by Daylight opened on Theater|Broadway at the Hudson Theatre on February 23, 1968.

Original Broadway Cast Album
In that same year, Columbia Masterworks Records and Walt Disney Records released a four-LP (Long-playing) Boxed Recording of the Original Broadway Cast performing the entire Play under the direction of Ralph Moll and Martin Scorsese.

The Album won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.

Awards and Nominations

 * 1968: Pulitzer Prize for Drama
 * 1968: Tony Award for Best Play (tying with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead)
 * 1968: Tony Award for Best Ensemble of a Play
 * 1968: Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play
 * 1968: Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album