Medea, 1949. Theatre Register

The run closed May 21, 1949

Opened: May 2, 1949
Closed: May 21, 1949
Performances: 16
Previews: —
Theatre: City Center

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 534th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Medea 7 more that season

1858	Bowery Theatre Original
1920	Garrick Theatre Revival	14 perf.
1947	National Theatre Revival · John Gielgud	214 perf.
1973	Circle In The Square Theatre Revival	79 perf.
1982	Cort Theatre Revival · Robert Whitehead	65 perf.
1994	Longacre Theatre Revival · Jonathan Kent	83 perf.
2002	Brooks Atkinson Theatre Revival · Deborah Warner	78 perf.

Who was in it15 named

Bruce Gordon—

Mary Adams
Judith Anderson
Henry Brandon
Martha Downs
James Doyle
Theodore Marcuse
James Mcardle
Don Mchenry
Peter Monsen
Anthony Radecki
Marian Seldes
Mary Servoss
Hilda Vaughn
Frederic Worlock

1 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 14 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

Producer: Guthrie McClintic

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 Medea at all.
No director named.
No show page for Medea. 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.