Theatre Register

King Richard III, 1979

Shows · Cort Theatre, 1979

Revival BroadwayJames Earl Jones Theatre 31 performances

The run closed July 15, 1979

Opened
June 14, 1979
Closed
July 15, 1979
Performances
31
Previews
28
Theatre
James Earl Jones Theatre

Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 326th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of King Richard III 16 more that season

1821 African Grove Revival
1825 Park Theatre Revival
1904 Princess Theatre Revival
1905 New Amsterdam Theatre Revival
1906 New Amsterdam Theatre Revival
1907 New Amsterdam Theatre Revival
1908 Bijou Theatre Revival 8 perf.
1909 New Amsterdam Theatre Revival
1911 Dalys Theatre Revival
1915 44th Street Theatre Revival
1917 44th Street Theatre Revival
1918 44th Street Theatre Revival
1920 Plymouth Theatre Revival 27 perf.
1930 Shubert Theatre Revival
1943 Forrest Theatre Revival · George Coulouris 11 perf.
1949 Booth Theatre Revival · Richard Barr 23 perf.

Who was in it24 named

Al Pacino
Penelope Allen
Richard Bright
Larry Bryggman
Dominic Chianese
Judson Earney
Keith Gordon
Paul Guilfoyle
Richard Jamieson
Frederic Kimball
John Mahon
Dan Monahan
Bill Moor
Frederick C Neumann
Harriet Rogers
Jaime Sanchez
Glenn Scarpelli
Linda Selman
Barry Snider
J T Walsh
Max Wright
Daniel Zippi

2 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 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
David Wheeler
Producer
The Shubert Organization

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 King Richard III at all.
  • No show page for King Richard III. 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.

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