Theatre Register

Mister Johnson, 1956

Shows · Martin Beck Theatre, 1956

Original BroadwayAl Hirschfeld Theatre 44 performances

The run closed May 5, 1956

Opened
March 29, 1956
Closed
May 5, 1956
Performances
44
Previews
Theatre
Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 336th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it30 named

John Akar
Ruth Attaway
David Berahzer
Geffrey Biddeau
Percival Borde
Alphonse Cimber
Clayton Corbin
Thayer David
Lawrence Fletcher
Louise Gilkes
Earle Hyman
Curtis James
Margie James
Earl Jones
Esther Liburd
Harold Nurse
Samuel Phills
Pearl Reynolds
Jay Riley
Gaby Rodgers
Rai Saunders
William Sylvester
Mary Waithe
Milton Williams

6 of these 30 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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
Cheryl Crawford

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 Mister Johnson at all.
  • No director named.
  • No show page for Mister Johnson. 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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