An Inspector Calls, 1947

The run closed January 10, 1948

Opened

October 21, 1947

Closed

January 10, 1948

Performances

95

Previews

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Theatre

Booth Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 243rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of An Inspector Calls 1 more that season

Who was in it7 named

Thomas Mitchell1892–1962

Melville Cooper1896–1973

John Buckmaster
Doris Lloyd
Rene Ray
Patricia Marmont
John Merivale

2 of these 7 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 5 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

Cedric Hardwicke

Producer

Courtney Burr

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 An Inspector Calls at all.
• No show page for An Inspector Calls. 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.