Theatre Register

Caesar and Cleopatra, 1949

Shows · National Theatre, 1949

Revival BroadwayNederlander Theatre 151 performances

The run closed April 29, 1950

Opened
December 21, 1949
Closed
April 29, 1950
Performances
151
Previews
Theatre
Nederlander Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 177th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Caesar and Cleopatra 4 more that season

1913 Shubert Theatre Revival
1925 Guild Theatre Revival · Philip Moeller 128 perf.
1951 Ziegfeld Theatre Revival · Michael Benthall 67 perf.
1977 Palace Theatre Revival · Ellis Rabb 12 perf.

Who was in it39 named

Lilli Palmer
John Buckmaster
Ivan Simpson
Ralph Browne
Ernest Butler
Julann Caffrey
Clifford Carpenter
Andrew George
Jules Getlin
Donny Harris
Michael Harvey
Harry Irvine
Dolores Jackson
Elnora Jones
Robert Earl Jones
Royce Kane
Michael Lipton
Tanagra Markham
Fred Meek
Si Oakland
Courtenaye Olden
Dorothy Partington
Jean Pearson
Arthur Popwell
Anthony Randall
Noel Robineau
Norman Roland
Mary Scott
Marjorie Spencer
Donald Symington
Ronald Telfer
John Ware
Mary Cunningham
Ann Flint
Francis L Sullivan

4 of these 39 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 35 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
Richard Aldrich

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 Caesar and Cleopatra at all.
  • No show page for Caesar and Cleopatra. 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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