Theatre Register

Lady Windermere's Fan, 1946

Shows · Cort Theatre, 1946

Revival BroadwayJames Earl Jones Theatre 228 performances

The run closed April 26, 1947

Opened
October 14, 1946
Closed
April 26, 1947
Performances
228
Previews
Theatre
James Earl Jones Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 130th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Lady Windermere's Fan 3 more that season

1893 Palmers Theatre Original
1914 Hudson Theatre Revival 72 perf.
1932 Recital Theatre Revival · Arthur William Row 4 perf.

Who was in it27 named

Stanley Bell
John Buckmaster
Richard Burns
Sally Cooper
Anne Curson
Henry Daniell
Leonore Elliott
Marguerite Gleason
Nan Hopkins
Peter Keyes
Thomas Louden
Jack Merivale
Paul Russell
Jerri Sauvinet
Tanagra Thayer
Evan Thomas
Elizabeth Valentine
Penelope Ward
Estelle Winwood
Marjorie Wood
Pamela Wright
Dorothy Kelley
David Manners
Rex O Malley
Louise Prussing

2 of these 27 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 25 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
Jack Minster
Producer
Homer Curran

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 Lady Windermere's Fan at all.
  • No show page for Lady Windermere's Fan. 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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