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Nicholas Joy

Shows · Nicholas Joy

Actor 1884–1964 On stage 19121958

On stage 35 productions, 46 years

1912 King Henry V Dalys Theatre · Revival 16 perf.
1913 Oedipus Rex Garden Theatre · Revival
1913 The Merchant of Venice Harris Theatre · Revival
1916 The Great Pursuit Shubert Theatre · Original 29 perf.
1924 Carnival! Cort Theatre · Revival · directed by Frank Reicher 32 perf.
1926 Embers Henry Millers Theatre · Original 25 perf.
1926 No Trespassing Sam H Harris Theatre · Original 23 perf.
1927 The Nightingale Jolsons 59th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Lewis Morton 96 perf.
1928 Wings Over Europe Martin Beck Theatre · Original · directed by Rouben Mamoulian 90 perf.
1930 Topaze Music Box Theatre · Original · directed by Stanley Logan 215 perf.
1931 A Modern Virgin Booth Theatre · Original · directed by Stanley Logan 53 perf.
1931 The Bride the Sun Shines On Fulton Theatre · Original · directed by Knowles Entrikin 77 perf.
1932 Music in the Air Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by Oscar Hammerstein II (Note in program: The direction is “after the pattern of the original staging, credit for which [Hammerstein shares] with the composer.”) 342 perf.
1934 Ode to Liberty Lyceum Theatre · Original 67 perf.
1935 A Journey By Night Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Robert B. Sinclair 7 perf.
1935 Knock on Wood Cort Theatre · Original · directed by John Hayden 11 perf.
1935 Rain Music Box Theatre · Revival · directed by Sam Forrest 47 perf.
1935 The Ragged Edge Fulton Theatre · Original · directed by A.H. Van Buren 8 perf.
1935 The Season Changes Booth Theatre · Original 8 perf.
1937 Yes, My Darling Daughter Playhouse Theatre · Original 405 perf.
1939 The Philadelphia Story Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Robert B. Sinclair 417 perf.
1940 Charley's Aunt Cort Theatre · Revival · directed by Joshua Logan 233 perf.
1941 The Walrus and the Carpenter Cort Theatre · Original · directed by Alfred De Liagre 9 perf.
1942 All the Comforts of Home Longacre Theatre · Original · directed by Arthur Sircom 8 perf.
1942 Bird in Hand Morosco Theatre · Revival 8 perf.
1942 The Morning Star Morosco Theatre · Original · directed by Stewart Chaney 24 perf.
1943 This Rock Longacre Theatre · Original 37 perf.
1944 Mrs. January and Mr. X Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by Elliott Nugent 43 perf.
1944 Ten Little Indians Broadhurst Theatre · Original 426 perf.
1946 A Joy Forever Biltmore Theatre · Original · directed by Reginald Denham 16 perf.
1946 The Iceman Cometh Martin Beck Theatre · Original · directed by Eddie Dowling 136 perf.
1949 Caesar and Cleopatra National Theatre · Revival · directed by Cedric Hardwicke 151 perf.
1952 Dear Barbarians Royale Theatre · Original 4 perf.
1957 Small War on Murray Hill Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original · directed by Garson Kanin 12 perf.
1958 The Family Reunion Phoenix Theatre · Original · directed by Stuart Vaughan 32 perf.

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Worked with more than once12 names

Dorothy Sands 3 productions
William David 2 productions
Walter Slezak 2 productions
Violet Heming 2 productions
Roydon Erlynne 2 productions
Richard Taber 2 productions
John E Kellerd 2 productions
James Spottswood 2 productions
Isobel Merson 2 productions
Henry Barnard 2 productions
Harry Irvine 2 productions
Harold de Becker 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. 11 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.

In the literature2 passages

  • Cast: Reinald Werrenrath, Natalie Hall, Tullio Carminati, Katherine Carrington, Al Shean, Walter Slezak, Nicholas Joy, Marjorie Mainebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • The Iceman Cometh, with (1. to r.) Carl Benton Reid, James Barton, Dudley Digges, and Nicholas Joy. New York, Martin Beck Theatre, 1946. [Photograph by Vandamm. Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 4 (O-S).txt

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