The run closed November 7, 1959
- Opened
- September 17, 1959
- Closed
- November 7, 1959
- Performances
- 58
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lunt Fontanne Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 293rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Much Ado About Nothing 12 more that season
| 1787 | John Street Theatre Original | |
| 1869 | Dalys Fifth Avenue Theatre Revival | |
| 1900 | Fifth Avenue Theatre Revival | |
| 1904 | Knickerbocker Theatre Revival | |
| 1907 | Garden Theatre Revival | |
| 1912 | Manhattan Opera House Revival | |
| 1913 | Empire Theatre Revival | 24 perf. |
| 1927 | American Laboratory Revival · Richard Boleslavsky | 22 perf. |
| 1952 | Music Box Theatre Revival · Antony Eustrel | 4 perf. |
| 1972 | Winter Garden Theatre Revival · A. J. Antoon | 136 perf. |
| 1984 | Gershwin Theatre Revival · Terry Hands | 53 perf. |
| 2026 | Winter Garden Theatre Revival |
Who was in it39 named
Margaret Leighton
Hurd Hatfield
Malcolm Keen
David King Wood
Mich Al Macliamm Ir
Nancy Marchand
Jean Marsh
Micheal Macliammoir
Betsy von Furstenberg
Jonathan Anderson
Richard Buck
Peter de Vise
Allessandro Giannini
Joan Hackett
Martin Herschberg
Joseph Hoover
Juliete Hunt
Graham Jarvis
Mark Lenard
Barry Macollum
Donald Moffat
Edward Moor
Louis Negin
Arthur Teno Pollick
Joe Ponazecki
Herbert Ranson
Virginia Robinson
Paul Sparer
Theodore Tenley
David Thurman
Fay Tracey
John Valva
Neil Vipond
Willie Wade
Elizabeth Winship
4 of these 39 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 35 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
- John Gielgud
- Producer
- The Cambridge Drama Festival (William Morris Hunt, Executive Producer)
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 character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Much Ado About Nothing at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.