• Actors: 44
• Speaking roles: 82
• Female speaking roles: 28
• Cat roles: 1
• Current actors with more than three degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon: Zero
• Actors who’ve been in a project with Kevin Bacon: 2; Billy Crudup (Sleepers) and David Cromwell (Picture Perfect)
• Number of actors auditioned: 757
• Number of actors cast who have recently broken up with famous actresses who were pregnant or have very young children: 2 (Crudup and Ethan Hawke)
• Number of man-hours that will have been spent rehearsing: 30,712
• Bottles of filtered water consumed by cast and crew nightly: 27
• Previews cut short so far because an actor fainted onstage: 1 (Richard Easton)
• Years covered by the play: 1833–1868
• Number of years since Stoppard began writing it: 8
• Total scenes: 66
• Writers and thinkers referenced in Act One: 22
• Foreign languages in which complete sentences are spoken: 4 (Russian, French, German, Italian)
• Serfs freed (offstage): 50 million
• Total budget: $7.5 million
• Number of leaves that fall on the set: 276
• Number of other Broadway shows set designer Bob Crowley has juggled this year: 3 (The History Boys, Tarzan, Mary Poppins)
• Number of costumes: 450
• Number of hair and wig people backstage: 3
• Running time of marathon performances scheduled for December: 12 hours
• Number of bathroom or meal breaks scheduled during said marathon: 5
• Estimated cost of a babysitter for the day and evening: $210