Bluebeard, 1871

The run closed September 21, 1871

Opened

August 16, 1871

Closed

September 21, 1871

Performances

30

Previews

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Theatre

Wallacks Theatre

Of the 77 productions we hold that opened in the 1870s and record a performance count, this is the 23rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Bluebeard 1 more that season

Who was in it6 named

Willie Edouin1846–1908

Harry Beckett
Camille Dubois
H W Montgomery
Hetty Tracy
Carlotta Zerbini

1 of these 6 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

Producer

Lydia Thompson

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 Bluebeard at all.
• No director named.
• No show page for Bluebeard. 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.