Inherit the Wind, 1955

The run closed June 22, 1957

Opened

April 21, 1955

Closed

June 22, 1957

Performances

806

Previews

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Theatre

Nederlander Theatre

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 16th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Inherit the Wind 2 more that season

Who was in it97 named

Ed Begley
Lou Adelman
Jack Banning
Eric Berne
Emmett Bradley
Charles Brin
Joseph Brownstone
Howard Caine
Michael Constantine
Staats Cotsworth
William Darrid
Michael del Medico
Donald Elson
Perry Fiske
Sara Floyd
Louis Hector
Fred Herrick
Ruth Hope
Sally Jessup
Mary Kevin Kelly
Muriel Kirkland
Julie Knox
Patricia Larson
Bethel Leslie
Michael Lewin
Robert P Lieb
Karl Light
Salem Ludwig
James Maloney
Evelyn Mando
Sarah Meade
Fred Miller
Rita Newton
Ruth Newton
Gian Pace
Bee Peters
Richard Poston
Jack Riano
Gordon Russell
Carroll Saint
Margherita Sargent
Robert Shannon
Harry Shaw
Maurice Shrog
Charles Thompson
Edmund Williams
Henry Barnard
Norman Beim
Charles Bell
Ivan Bonar
Patricia Bosworth
Ronald Brumlik
D G Buckles
Purdy Calvin
Clifford Carpenter
Bob Dennis
Barry Desfor
Frieda Dorn
Frederic Downs
David Dunham
Drummond Erskine
Frank Ford
Prudy Glover
Frederica Going
Taylor Graves
James Greene
Frank Hamilton
Frances Helm
Marjorie Howard
Richard Jury
Paul Kielar
Dan Lincoln
Leo Lucker
Alan Macateer
Frank Macdonald
Julie Mccarthy
Raf Michaels
Eulalie Noble
Simon Oakland
Shirley O Hara
Carol O Keith
Elizabeth Perry
Edward Guillaime Polidor
Jared Reed
Tom Flatley Reynolds
Paul Roland
Lewis Scholle
Jacqueline Scott
Perry Skaar
Archie Smith
Dorothy Stanska
Leon B Stevens
Ronald Weyand
Florence Williams
Barbara Woods

2 of these 97 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 95 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

Terese Hayden

Producer

Herman Shumlin

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 Inherit the Wind at all.
• No show page for Inherit the Wind. 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.