The run closed February 11, 1973
- Opened
- November 11, 1972
- Closed
- February 11, 1973
- Performances
- 136
- Previews
- 10
- Theatre
- Winter Garden Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 137th 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. |
| 1959 | Lunt Fontanne Theatre Revival · John Gielgud | 58 perf. |
| 1984 | Gershwin Theatre Revival · Terry Hands | 53 perf. |
| 2026 | Winter Garden Theatre Revival |
Who was in it30 named
Barnard Hughes
Sam Waterston
Douglass Watson
Kathleen Widdoes
Charles Bartlett
Richard Casper
Frederick Coffin
Lindsay Ann Crouse
Marshall Efron
Arny Freeman
Jack Gianino
Cathy Greene
George Gugleotti
Mark Hammer
Bette Henritze
Jeanne Hepple
Joan Jaffe
David Lenthall
Rosamond Lynn
Jerry Mayer
Tom Mcdermott
James Mcgill
William Robertson
Barbara Rubenstein
Richard Schneider
Leland Schwantes
April Shawhan
Glenn Walken
Paul Sparer
1 of these 30 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 29 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
- A. J. Antoon
- Choreographer
- A. J. Antoon
- Producer
- The New York Shakespeare Festival (Joseph Papp, 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 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 Much Ado About Nothing at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.