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John C. Becher

Shows · John C. Becher

ActorOn stage 19471983

On stage 11 productions, 36 years

1947 Alice in Wonderland International Theatre · Revival · directed by Ruth Wilton 100 perf.
1947 Yellow Jack International Theatre · Revival · directed by Martin Ritt 21 perf.
1951 Idiot's Delight City Center · Revival · directed by George Schaefer 15 perf.
1953 Picnic Music Box Theatre · Revival · directed by Marshall Jamison 477 perf.
1957 Brigadoon Theatre not recorded · Revival 47 perf.
1963 The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Martin Beck Theatre · Original · directed by Alan Schneider 123 perf.
1966 Mame Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by Gene Saks 1,508 perf.
1970 Harvey Anta Playhouse · Revival · directed by Stephen Porter 79 perf.
1973 Status Quo Vadis Brooks Atkinson Theatre · Original 1 perf.
1974 Gypsy Winter Garden Theatre · Revival · directed by Arthur Laurents 120 perf.
1983 Mame Gershwin Theatre · Revival · directed by John Bowab 41 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 once12 names

Angela Lansbury 3 productions
William Windom 2 productions
Willard Waterman 2 productions
Will Davis 2 productions
Walter Neal 2 productions
Theodore Tenley 2 productions
Sab Shimono 2 productions
Roberts Blossom 2 productions
Robert Rawlings 2 productions
Robert Leser 2 productions
Raymond Greenleaf 2 productions
Philip Bourneuf 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. 8 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.

Also credited on1 work

Brigadoon

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
  • Any biography.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — actor — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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