The run closed May 14, 1949
- Opened
- September 30, 1948
- Closed
- May 14, 1949
- Performances
- 260
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 117th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it15 named
Peggy Ashcroft
Ian Hunter
Leueen Macgrath
Dorothy Beattie
D A Clarke Smith
Patricia Hicks
Godfrey Kenton
Dayton Lummis
Richard Newton
Waldo Sturrey
Torin Thatcher
Adrianne Allen
Brooke Byron
Mary Kenton
1 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 14 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
- Peter Ashmore
- 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 Edward, My Son at all.
- No show page for Edward, My Son. 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.