The run closed October 17, 1954
- Opened
- September 21, 1954
- Closed
- October 17, 1954
- Performances
- 29
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Metropolitan Opera House
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 405th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of A Midsummer Night's Dream 9 more that season
| 1826 | Park Theatre Original | |
| 1906 | Astor Theatre Revival | 34 perf. |
| 1910 | Garden Theatre Revival | |
| 1915 | Wallacks Theatre Revival · Granville Barker | |
| 1920 | Little Theatre Revival · Ellen Van Volkenburg | 7 perf. |
| 1927 | Century Theatre Revival | 23 perf. |
| 1932 | Shakespeare Theatre Revival · Percival Vivian | 27 perf. |
| 1971 | Billy Rose Theatre Revival · Peter Brook | 62 perf. |
| 1996 | Lunt Fontanne Theatre Revival · Adrian Noble | 65 perf. |
Who was in it53 named
Moira Shearer
Valerie Adams
Ivan Baptie
Joan Benham
Jocelyn Britton
Mary Brookes
Louise Carley
Margaret Courtenay
Tania D Avray
Nadia de Lichtenberg
John Dearth
Juliet Ellice
Mary Fenwick
Jeremy Geidt
Philip Guard
Phyllis Harcourt
David Harding
Michael Hayes
Vivienne Hetzel
Peter Johnson
Lana Kassinova
Joan King
Margaret Knoesen
Barbara Leigh Hunt
Philip Locke
Terence Longdon
Patrick Macnee
Eliot Makeham
William Martin
Kenneth Melville
Rosemary Moore
Henry Naughton
Gillian Neason
Anthony Nicholls
Joanne Nisbet
Michael Redington
David Reynolds
David Rose
Norman Rossington
Betty Shale
Jane Shore
Josephine Spaull
Suzanne Steele
David Stevens
Daniel Thorndike
Sven van Zyl
Elisabeth Wade
Ann Walford
Anne Wilson
Sheila Wright
3 of these 53 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 50 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Michael Benthall
- Choreographer
- Michael Benthall
- Producer
- S. Hurok
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for A Midsummer Night's Dream at all.
- No show page for A Midsummer Night's Dream. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.