The run closed October 24, 1959
- Opened
- December 11, 1958
- Closed
- October 24, 1959
- Performances
- 364
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Anta Playhouse
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 83rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it27 named
Raymond Massey
Nan Martin
Bert Conway
Ivor Francis
Ciri Jacobson
Clifton James
Judith Lowry
Miriam Merry Martin
Arnold Merritt
Candy Moore
James Olson
Laura Pierpont
Ford Rainey
Jeffrey Rowland
Fay Sappington
Andreas Voutsinas
Janet Ward
Helen Waters
James Daly
Nancy Cushman
Pamela King
Elaine Martin
Basil Rathbone
Ronnie Walken
3 of these 27 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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
- Elia Kazan
- Producer
- Alfred De Liagre, Jr.
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 J.B. at all.
- No show page for J.B.. 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.