The run closed November 17, 1956
- Opened
- March 24, 1955
- Closed
- November 17, 1956
- Performances
- 694
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Morosco Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 25th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 5 more that season
| 1974 | Anta Playhouse Revival · Michael Kahn | 160 perf. |
| 1990 | Eugene Oneill Theatre Revival · Howard Davies | 149 perf. |
| 2003 | Music Box Theatre Revival · Anthony Page | 145 perf. |
| 2008 | Broadhurst Theatre Revival · Debbie Allen | 125 perf. |
| 2013 | Richard Rodgers Theatre Revival · Rob Ashford | 84 perf. |
Who was in it28 named
Barbara Bel Geddes
Mildred Dunnock
Ben Gazzara
R G Armstrong
Janice Dunn
Seth Edwards
Pauline Hahn
Darryl Richard
Madeleine Sherwood
Eva Vaughn Smith
Fred Stewart
Sonny Terry
Musa Williams
Thomas Gomez
Majorie Steele
Mary Bell
Claiborne Foster
Jack Lord
Alex Nicol
Jimmy Bayer
Nancy Clark
Michele Mordana
Nicholas Paul
5 of these 28 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
- Elia Kazan
- Producer
- The Playwrights' Company (Maxwell Anderson; Robert Anderson; Elmer Rice; Robert E. Sherwood; Roger L. Stevens; John F. Wharton)
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 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at all.
- No show page for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. 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.