The run closed July 3, 1948
- Opened
- March 18, 1948
- Closed
- July 3, 1948
- Performances
- 124
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 198th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it28 named
Marsha Hunt
Sam Bonnell
Harris Brown
Vicki Carlson
Clay Clement
Michael Dreyfuss
Bert Freed
Lois Hall
Jeanne Jorden
Leslie Litomy
Peggy Maley
Theodore Newton
Lucille Patton
Herb Ratner
Hugh Rennie
Beverly Thawl
Mary Welch
Blanche Zohar
Fred Ayers Cotton
Jayn Fortner
Lee Grant
7 of these 28 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 21 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
- Jules Dassin
- Producer
- John Houseman
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 Joy to the World at all.
- No show page for Joy to the World. 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.