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Jane Kean

Shows · Jane Kean

ActorOn stage 19431961

On stage 7 productions, 18 years

1943 Early to Bed Broadhurst Theatre · Original · directed by Alfred Bloomingdale 380 perf.
1945 The Girl From Nantucket Adelphi Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Clarke Lilley 12 perf.
1946 Call Me Mister National Theatre · Original · directed by Robert H. Gordon 734 perf.
1949 Along Fifth Avenue Broadhurst Theatre · Original · directed by Robert Sidney 180 perf.
1955 Ankles Aweigh Mark Hellinger Theatre · Original · directed by Fred F. Finklehoffe 176 perf.
1955 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Belasco Theatre · Original 444 perf.
1961 Carnival! Imperial Theatre · Revival · directed by Gower Champion 719 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once5 names

Howard Malone 2 productions
Harry Clark 2 productions
George S. Irving 2 productions
Evelyn Ward 2 productions
Betty Kean 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 2 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

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