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Orson Bean

Shows · Orson Bean

ActorOn stage 19531967

On stage 8 productions, 14 years

1953 Men of Distinction 48th Street Theatre · Original 4 perf.
1955 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Belasco Theatre · Original 444 perf.
1957 Nature's Way Coronet Theatre · Original 61 perf.
1961 Subways Are For Sleeping St. James · Original · directed by Michael Kidd 205 perf.
1962 Never Too Late Playhouse Theatre · Original · directed by George Abbott 1,007 perf.
1964 I Was Dancing Lyceum Theatre · Original · directed by Garson Kanin 16 perf.
1965 The Roar of the Greasepaint The Smell of the Crowd Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Anthony Newley 232 perf.
1967 Illya Darling Mark Hellinger Theatre · Original · directed by Onna White 320 perf.

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Worked with more than once3 names

Harold Gary 2 productions
Fred Burrell 2 productions
David Doyle 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. 3 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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