Theatre Register

A Touch of the Poet, 1958

Shows · Helen Hayes Theatre, 1958

Original BroadwayHelen Hayes Theatre284 performances

The run closed June 13, 1959

Opened
October 2, 1958
Closed
June 13, 1959
Performances
284
Previews
Theatre
Helen Hayes Theatre

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 102nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of A Touch of the Poet 3 more that season

1967 Anta Playhouse Revival · Jack Sydow 5 perf.
1977 Helen Hayes Theatre Revival · José Quintero 141 perf.
2005 Studio 54 Revival · Doug Hughes 50 perf.

Who was in it13 named

Betty Field
Helen Hayes
Eric Portman
Curt Conway
Farrell Pelly
Kim Stanley
Luis van Rooten
Cloris Leachman
Dermot Mcnamara
Gerald S O Loughlin

3 of these 13 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 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
Harold Clurman
Producer
The Producers Theatre

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 Touch of the Poet at all.
  • No show page for A Touch of the Poet. 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.

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