Theatre Register
Death of a Salesman, 1949

Death of a Salesman, 1949

Shows · Death of a Salesman · Morosco Theatre, 1949

Original BroadwayMorosco Theatre 742 performances

The run closed November 18, 1950

Opened
February 10, 1949
Closed
November 18, 1950
Performances
742
Previews
Theatre
Morosco Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 22nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Death of a Salesman 7 more that season

1949 Transfer Transfer
1975 Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · George C. Scott 71 perf.
1984 Broadhurst Theatre Revival · Michael Rudman 155 perf.
1999 Eugene Oneill Theatre Revival · Robert Falls 274 perf.
2012 Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival · Mike Nichols 78 perf.
2022 Hudson Theatre Revival · TaNisha Fordham 112 perf.
2026 Winter Garden Theatre Revival

Who was in it22 named

Lee J Cobb
Mildred Dunnock
Arthur Kennedy
Cameron Mitchell
Howard Smith
Hope Cameron
Winifred Cushing
Ann Driscoll
Don Keefer
Albert Dekker
Gene Lockhart
Peggy Allenby
Edwin Jerome
Frank Maxwell
Sollen Burry
Robert P Lieb
Janice Mars

5 of these 22 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 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.

Characters8 roles recorded

Lee J. Cobb Willy Loman
Mildred Dunnock Linda Loman
Arthur Kennedy Biff Loman
Cameron Mitchell Happy Loman
Thomas Calmers Uncle Ben
Joe Maross Bernard
Howard Smith Charley
Naomi Stevens The Woman

Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.

Creative team

Director
Elia Kazan
Producer
Kermit Bloomgarden

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 recording is held for Death of a Salesman at all.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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