Call Me By My Rightful Name is a 1961 American play by Michael Shurtleff which is based on the novel The Whipping Boy by S.F.
The production premiered Off-Broadway on January 31, 1961, at One Sheridan Square (now the Axis Theatre) where it ran for a total of 127 performances.
[3] In July 1962, the Rockport, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen denied a production company, planning to stage Call Me By My Rightful Name and The Zoo Story, access to the city high school's auditorium.
It starred Don Murray (who also worked on the screenplay with Shurtleff), Otis Young, Cathy Lee Crosby, Kent Smith, Edith Atwater, and Gary Clarke.
Murray supposedly wanted Sidney Poitier to play opposite him in the film originally.