The run closed May 11, 1940
- Opened
- March 25, 1940
- Closed
- May 11, 1940
- Performances
- 56
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- 44th Street Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 316th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Liliom 3 more that season
| 1921 | Garrick Theatre Original · Frank Reicher | 300 perf. |
| 1921 | Garrick Theatre Transfer | |
| 1932 | Civic Repertory Theatre Revival · Eva Le Gallienne | 35 perf. |
Who was in it44 named
Ajax
Jane Amar
Kenneth Bates
Ingrid Bergman
Lee Berkman
Chet Bree
John Cushman
Haldor Debecker
Francis de Sales
Constance Dowling
Gail Drexel
Florence Earle
John Emery
Edwin George
Mary Gildea
Gigi Gilpin
R Henry Handon
Patricia Harris
Joyce Haywood
Ann Holahan
Marilyn Jolie
Arnold Korff
Joseph Kramm
Joseph Macauley
Richard Mackay
Ann Mason
Evelyn Moser
Eileen Murphy
Beatrice Pearson
Gibbs Penrose
Elaine Perry
Eleanor Prentiss
William Robertson
Peggy Romano
James Russo
Helen Shields
Joan Tetzel
Richard Vimtour
Frank Vincent
Sonny Wright
Margaret Wycherly
3 of these 44 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
- Director
- Benno Schneider
- Producer
- Vinton Freedley
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 Liliom at all.
- No show page for Liliom. 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.