Theatre Register

As You Like It, 1950

Shows · Cort Theatre, 1950

Revival BroadwayJames Earl Jones Theatre 145 performances

The run closed June 3, 1950

Opened
January 26, 1950
Closed
June 3, 1950
Performances
145
Previews
Theatre
James Earl Jones Theatre

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 173rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of As You Like It 19 more that season

1786 John Street Theatre Original
1869 Dalys Fifth Avenue Theatre Revival
1902 Theatre Republic Revival 60 perf.
1907 Garden Theatre Revival
1910 Academy Of Music Revival
1911 Dalys Theatre Revival
1912 Manhattan Opera House Revival
1913 Manhattan Opera House Revival
1914 Hudson Theatre Revival
1918 Cort Theatre Revival 2 perf.
1919 Plymouth Theatre Revival 1 perf.
1923 48th Street Theatre Revival 8 perf.
1930 Shubert Theatre Revival
1937 Ritz Theatre Revival · Samuel Rosen 17 perf.
1941 Mansfield Theatre Revival 8 perf.
1947 New Century Theatre Revival · Donald Wolfit 4 perf.
1974 Mark Hellinger Theatre Revival · Clifford Williams 8 perf.
1986 Belasco Theatre Revival · Estelle Parsons 174 perf.
2022 @sohoplace Transfer

Who was in it29 named

William Prince
Ernest Thesiger
Kenneth Cantril
Patricia Englund
Michael Everett
Robert Foster
Everett Gammon
Ernest Graves
Charles Herndon
Whitford Kane
Cloris Leachman
Dayton Lummis
Burton Mallory
Aubrey Mather
Marylin Nowell
Bill Owen
Judy Parrish
Robert Quarry
Jay Robinson
Frank Rogier
Jan Sherwood
William Sutherland
Craig Timberlake
Robert Wark
John Weaver
Margaret Wright
Keith Palmer

2 of these 29 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 27 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
Producer
The Theatre Guild (Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner: Administrative Directors)

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 As You Like It at all.
  • No show page for As You Like It. 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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