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Lou Polan

Shows · Lou Polan

ActorOn stage 19331972

On stage 13 productions, 39 years

1933 Yoshe Kalb National Theatre · Original 4 perf.
1938 Haiti Lafayette Theatre · Original · directed by Maurice Clark 168 perf.
1940 Night Music Broadhurst Theatre · Original · directed by Harold Clurman 20 perf.
1941 Walk Into My Parlor Forrest Theatre · Original 29 perf.
1942 Cafe Crown Theatre not recorded · Original 141 perf.
1947 The Gentleman From Athens Mansfield Theatre · Original · directed by Sam Wanamaker 7 perf.
1947 The Whole World Over Biltmore Theatre · Original · directed by Harold Clurman 100 perf.
1950 The Golden State Fulton Theatre · Original 25 perf.
1952 Desire Under the Elms Anta Playhouse · Revival · directed by Harold Clurman 46 perf.
1955 Bus Stop Music Box Theatre · Original · directed by Harold Clurman 478 perf.
1958 Drink to Me Only 54th Street Theatre · Original · directed by George Abbott 77 perf.
1959 The Legend of Lizzie 54th Street Theatre · Original 2 perf.
1972 The Creation of the World and Other Business Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Gerald Freedman 20 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 once7 names

Sanford Meisner 2 productions
Nicholas Conte 2 productions
Morris Carnovsky 2 productions
Jocelyn Brando 2 productions
Helen Waren 2 productions
Fred Stewart 2 productions
Frank Tweddell 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. 5 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

Cafe Crown

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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