The run closed May 27, 1961
- Opened
- May 8, 1961
- Closed
- May 27, 1961
- Performances
- 27
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Hudson Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 355th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Becket 1 more that season
| 1960 | St James Theatre Original · Peter Glenville | 193 perf. |
Who was in it27 named
Arthur Kennedy
Laurence Olivier
Hilary Beckett
Mel Berger
Marshall Breeden
Nat Burns
Nicolas Coster
Brian Crowe
Kit Culkin
Robert Duke
Robert Eckles
James Frawley
Margaret Hall
Ferdi Hoffman
Will Hussung
Edith Lebok
Tom Leith
Earl Montgomery
Al Rand
Dennis Rosa
Dino Terranova
Victor Thorley
Sydney Walker
Ronald Weyand
3 of these 27 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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
- Peter Glenville
- Producer
- David Merrick
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 Becket at all.
- No show page for Becket. 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.