The run closed January 14, 1967
- Opened
- September 27, 1966
- Closed
- January 14, 1967
- Performances
- 127
- Previews
- 9
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 158th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Dinner at Eight 2 more that season
| 1932 | Music Box Theatre Original · Robert B. Sinclair | 232 perf. |
| 2002 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Gerald Gutierrez | 45 perf. |
Who was in it23 named
Judith Barcroft
Robert Burr
Marilyn Clark
Niki Flacks
Ruth Ford
Arlene Francis
Kenneth Frankel
Edward Holmes
John Randolph Jones
Daniel Keyes
Jeffrey Lynn
Joseph Mascolo
Darren Mcgavin
Lucille Patton
Jack Pickett
April Shawhan
Pamela Tiffin
Blanche Yurka
5 of these 23 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 18 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
- Tyrone Guthrie
- Producer
- Elliot Martin
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 Dinner at Eight at all.
- No show page for Dinner at Eight. 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.