Theatre Register

Caesar and Cleopatra, 1951

Shows · Ziegfeld Theatre, 1951

Revival BroadwayZiegfeld Theatre 67 performances

The run closed April 12, 1952

Opened
December 19, 1951
Closed
April 12, 1952
Performances
67
Previews
Theatre
Ziegfeld Theatre

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 271st 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.
1949 National Theatre Revival · Cedric Hardwicke 151 perf.
1977 Palace Theatre Revival · Ellis Rabb 12 perf.

Who was in it37 named

Laurence Olivier
Ronald Adam
Harry Andrews
Timothy Bateson
Robert Beaumont
Katharine Blake
Lyndon Brook
Noel Coleman
Dan Cunningham
John Dearth
John Dunbar
Dawson France
Max Gardiner
Renee Goddard
Cy Grant
David Greene
Robert Helpmann
Winnifred Hill
Paul Homer
Oliver Hunter
Wilfred Hyde White
Harold Kasket
Colin Kemball
Elizabeth Kentish
Niall Macginnis
Alec Mccowen
Jack Melford
Teresa Moore
Pat Nye
David Orr
Donald Pleasence
Edmund Purdom
Mairhi Russell
Patrick Troughton
Jill Welchman
Clifford Williams

1 of these 37 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 36 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
Gilbert Miller

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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