The run closed March 26, 1944
- Opened
- February 17, 1944
- Closed
- March 26, 1944
- Performances
- 8
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Ambassador Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 640th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it39 named
Tom Bennett
Lucille Benon
Gerald Bercier
Edward Bird
David Bogart
Ruth Cummings
Jean Davis
John Dewey
Robert Eckles
Joseph Filos
Walter George
James Gerard
Helen Jayson
Catherine Judah
Florence Keezel
Louise King
Lillian Koniver
Charlotte Kremla
August Loring
Mary Lundon
Barry Lyndall
Chester Madan
Edwin Marsh
Maxine Masseretto
Victoria Mayer
Louise Miller
Larry O Dell
Athena Pappas
Doris Parker
Helen Prentiss
Kathryn Reece
Kathleen Roche
Edith Sterling
Allen Stewart
Virginia Tyre
Marie Valdez
3 of these 39 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
- R.H. Burnside
- Producer
- Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company
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 Cox and Box / The Pirates of Penzance at all.
- No show page for Cox and Box / The Pirates of Penzance. 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.