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Theresa Merritt

Shows · Theresa Merritt

ActorOn stage 19451991

On stage 12 productions, 46 years

1945 Carmen Jones City Center · Revival · directed by Hassard Short 21 perf.
1946 Carmen Jones City Center · Revival · directed by Hassard Short 32 perf.
1963 Tambourines to Glory Little Theatre · Original · directed by Nikos Psacharopoulos 24 perf.
1964 Golden Boy Majestic Theatre · Revival · directed by Arthur Penn 569 perf.
1969 Trumpets of the Lord Brooks Atkinson Theatre · Original · directed by Theodore Mann 7 perf.
1972 Don't Play Us Cheap! Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original 164 perf.
1972 The Crucible Vivian Beaumont Theater · Revival · directed by John Berry 44 perf.
1975 The Wiz Majestic Theatre · Original · directed by Geoffrey Holder (Gilbert Moses uncredited) 1,672 perf.
1980 Division Street Ambassador Theatre · Original · directed by Tom Moore 21 perf.
1984 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Cort Theatre · Original · directed by Lloyd Richards 276 perf.
1989 Café Crown Brooks Atkinson Theatre · Original · directed by Martin Charnin 3 perf.
1991 Mule Bone Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original · directed by Michael Schultz 68 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

Sibol Cain 2 productions
Ruth Crumpton 2 productions
Robert Clarke 2 productions
Napoleon Reed 2 productions
Muriel Smith 2 productions
Mabel King 2 productions
Louis Gossett 2 productions
LeVern Hutcherson 2 productions
Leonard Jackson 2 productions
Kenneth Scott 2 productions
John W. Bubbles 2 productions
Jack Carr 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.

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