The run closed January 20, 1962
- Opened
- November 2, 1961
- Closed
- January 20, 1962
- Performances
- 92
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadway Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 203rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it47 named
Alfred de Sio
Robert Penn
Arthur Rubin
Truman Smith
Patrick Waddington
Martin Ambrose
Charise Amidon
John Aristides
Barbara Beck
Johanna Carothers
Lois Castle
Charles Corbett
Kenneth Creel
Patricia Cutts
Randy Doney
Judy Dunford
Charles Dunn
Eddie Erickson
Nancy Foster
Margaret Gathright
Maggie Goz
Mickey Gunnerson
George Harwell
Pamela Hayford
Jim Hutchison
Lisa James
Rene Jarmon
John Jordan
Paul Jordan
John Lankston
Richard Lyle
Joseph Mcgrath
Lispet Nelson
Mary Nettum
Roger Puckett
Larry Shadur
Suanne Shirley
Susan Terry
Alfred Toigo
Gloria Warner
John Wheeler
6 of these 47 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 41 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
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.
Around this production
Kean is a musical with a book by Peter Stone and music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest. Using material by Jean-Paul Sartre and Alexandre Dumas, père as its source, it centers on the adventures of Edmund Kean, considered the greatest Shakespearean actor of the early 19th century, focusing primarily mainly on his wild behavior offstage. Trouble ensues as Kean desperately tries to juggle the two women in his life - the Danish Ambassador's wife, Elena, and a young aspiring actress, Anna. After one preview, the Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Jack Cole, opened on November 2, 1961 at the Broadway Theatre, where it ran for 92 performances. The cast included Roderic…
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
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 Kean at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.