The run closed April 30, 1978
- Opened
- December 28, 1977
- Closed
- April 30, 1978
- Performances
- 141
- Previews
- 8
- Theatre
- Helen Hayes Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 133rd 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
| 1958 | Helen Hayes Theatre Original · Harold Clurman | 284 perf. |
| 1967 | Anta Playhouse Revival · Jack Sydow | 5 perf. |
| 2005 | Studio 54 Revival · Doug Hughes | 50 perf. |
Who was in it10 named
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Jason Robards
Betty Miller
Kathryn Walker
George Ede
Walter Flanagan
Richard Hamilton
Dermot Mcnamara
Barry Snider
1 of these 10 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 9 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
- José Quintero
- Producer
- Elliot Martin
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.