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Tom Poston

Shows · Tom Poston

ActorOn stage 19541972

On stage 13 productions, 18 years

1954 Stockade President Theatre · Original · directed by Robert H. Gordon 4 perf.
1955 The Grand Prize Plymouth Theatre · Original 21 perf.
1955 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Belasco Theatre · Original 444 perf.
1956 Goodbye Again Helen Hayes Theatre · Revival 7 perf.
1957 Romanoff and Juliet Plymouth Theatre · Original · directed by George S. Kaufman 389 perf.
1958 Drink to Me Only 54th Street Theatre · Original · directed by George Abbott 77 perf.
1959 Golden Fleecing Henry Millers Theatre · Original · directed by Abe Burrows 84 perf.
1961 Come Blow Your Horn Brooks Atkinson Theatre · Original · directed by Stanley Prager 677 perf.
1961 Mary, Mary Helen Hayes Theatre · Original · directed by Joseph Anthony 1,572 perf.
1961 The Conquering Hero ANTA · Original · directed by Albert Marre 8 perf.
1968 Forty Carats Morosco Theatre · Original · directed by Abe Burrows 780 perf.
1969 But, Seriously... Henry Millers Theatre · Original · directed by John Allen 4 perf.
1972 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Lunt Fontanne Theatre · Revival · directed by Stephen Sondheim 156 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

Murray Hamilton 3 productions
William Thourlby 2 productions
Sally Gracie 2 productions
Polly Rowles 2 productions
Michael Tolan 2 productions
Jack Gilford 2 productions
Hiram Sherman 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. 4 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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