The run closed December 8, 1951
- Opened
- April 19, 1951
- Closed
- December 8, 1951
- Performances
- 270
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 109th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it50 named
John Connoughton
Jane Copeland
Donald Duerr
Celine Flanagan
Johnny Ford
Alan Gilbert
Jeanne Grant
Dody Heath
Joan Kibrig
Albert Linville
Buzzie Martin
Howard Martin
James Mccracken
Iona Mckenzie
Patti Milligan
David Newman
Janet Parker
Billy Parsons
Beverly Purvin
Frank Seabolt
Mary Statz
Marc West
Bruno Wick
Eleanor Williams
Roland Wood
Doris Wright
Delbert Anderson
Dorothy Hill
Dick Price
Isabel Price
Feodore Tedick
Beverly Jane Welch
19 of these 50 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 31 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
- George Abbott
- Choreographer
- Herbert Ross, Herbert
- Producer
- George Abbott in association with Robert Fryer
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 Tree Grows in Brooklyn “A New Musical” at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.