The run closed May 12, 1951
- Opened
- February 10, 1951
- Closed
- May 12, 1951
- Performances
- 105
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 211th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it26 named
Torin Thatcher
Martin Brandt
Charles Carshon
James Daly
Robert Dudley
Norman Ettlinger
George Fells
Bill Froelich
Henry Garrard
Preston Hanson
Charles Hudson
Bernard Kates
David Long
Lee Marvin
Robert Mcqueeney
Jeff Morrow
Charles Nolte
Kenneth Paine
Judson Pratt
Winston Ross
Guy Spaull
Bertram Tanswell
Leonard Yorr
3 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 23 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
- Norris Houghton
- Producer
- Chandler Cowles
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 Billy Budd at all.
- No show page for Billy Budd. 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.