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A train passenger, left, gets a close-up view of Jim Ford, center, and Tyler Caffall in “IRT: A Tragedy in Three Stations.”

Published: February 1, 2009

The longest-running theatrical production in New York — it runs from Brooklyn to Manhattan — premiered on Thursday night to rave reviews in subway stations around the city.

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Catherine Yeager and Mr. Caffall perform a ballroom dance.

Proving that all the world’s a moving stage, a 30-member cast and crew spent a whirlwind winter’s night performing before captive audiences aboard subway trains that served as the combined setting for “IRT: A Tragedy in Three Stations.”

The two-hour play — which can be a bit shorter on express trains — tells the story of the evolution of the New York City subway system and the men who risked their lives building it.

Written and directed by Jeff Stark, the bumpy production is filled with colorful dialogue and stars Jim Ford as a ghoulish-looking August Belmont Jr., an early 20th-century investor in the subway who served as president of the Interborough Rapid Transit, which operated the city’s original underground line.

Mr. Stark, a 36-year-old handyman from Brooklyn who dabbles in artistic ventures, used his creative tools to build fictional characters and a fiery storyline around Mr. Belmont. The year is 1904, four years after construction began on the soon-to-open subway system, and Mr. Belmont is at constant odds with a union organizer named Thomas Fowler (played by Tyler Caffall). Mr. Belmont’s daughter, Clara (played by Catherine Yeager), a nurse who happens to be Mr. Fowler’s love interest, is caught in the middle.

“Tonight, these platforms will be our playhouse,” Mr. Ford, wearing a tuxedo and a handlebar mustache, told an audience gathered on a Brooklyn subway platform during the prologue. “Conductors will manage our stage. The sound designer is a passing train, and these fluorescents light our way.”

About 30 people, dressed for the occasion in their Broadway best, had bought tickets at $10 apiece at www.subwaytheater.com. They were told by e-mail where in Brooklyn to pick up their tickets. Once there, they met a young woman dressed in a conductor’s uniform who directed them to a nearby train station, where the play began. (In an effort to prevent overcrowding and people sneaking into one of the performances, Mr. Stark will reveal the pickup location and start of the theater route only to those who buy tickets.)

Of course, people who had not paid $10 but had presumably purchased a MetroCard got a chance to glimpse snippets of the production. At the first train station in downtown Brooklyn, audience members — as well as everyday riders — were greeted by a tour guide and music by four musicians dressed as members of a turn-of-the-20th-century Salvation Army band in long gray coats.

“This is an interesting, innovative and inexpensive way of using public spaces to display art,” said Julie Funk, 27, of Brooklyn, who bought a ticket for the event.

As the band played, Steve Thompson, a 44-year-old courier from Brooklyn who was not a part of the paying audience, trotted down a large staircase before spotting Mr. Ford and the band and coming to a screeching halt.

“For a minute there, I thought I was in the Twilight Zone,” Mr. Thompson said. “But this is really cool. Just when you think you’re fed up with New York City, something like this endears you to it all over again.”

Before long, the tour guide was ushering the audience onto a No. 4 train heading toward Manhattan. In the first train scene, Mr. Fowler confronts Mr. Belmont over worker safety, and the actors argue beneath a bright light that was fitted into one of the props, a shoeshine box. The scene came complete with a larger prop that served as a roll-top desk but in later scenes became a bar.

At Fulton Street, Edwin Lo, a 34-year-old security guard from the Bronx, had barely slipped inside the closing train doors when he found himself about a foot from the crowded stage, the audience nearly pushing him into a scene.

At first confused, Mr. Lo settled in, and within a couple of minutes said softly, “I have to admit, this is pretty good stuff, man.”

The next stop was 59th Street, and in a large corridor there, Mr. Stark staged his most beautiful scene, a ballroom dance in which Ms. Belmont, she in a long blue evening gown, and Mr. Fowler, he in a black tuxedo with a white vest and union work boots, were surrounded by Mr. Belmont’s high-society guests.

The performance chugged along at an energetic clip, ending with a scene involving a security guard booth on a platform at 125th Street.

The play, which was repeated on Friday and Saturday, returns to the rails this week, though Thursday’s, Friday’s and Saturday’s performances have sold out. Mr. Stark, who said that the police had not bothered his troupe because it had “operated within the guidelines for subway performers,” was fairly certain that Saturday would mark the end of the line for his unique show.

After Thursday night’s performance, he sounded as if he had thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

“I was amazed by it,” he said after the cast and the crew had taken their bows. “I thought it was a great show, and it seemed like all of us had a great time.”

More Articles in New York Region » A version of this article appeared in print on February 2, 2009, on page A19 of the New York edition.

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