The run closed January 16, 1965
- Opened
- September 30, 1964
- Closed
- January 16, 1965
- Performances
- 125
- Previews
- 1
- Theatre
- Broadhurst Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 161st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it17 named
Fanny Carby
Frank Coda
Richard Curnock
Peter Dalton
Larry Dann
Myvanwy Jenn
Colin Kemball
Linda Loftis
Murray Melvin
Brian Murphy
Ian Paterson
George Sewell
Victor Spinetti
Valerie Walsh
Barbara Windsor
2 of these 17 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 15 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
- Joan Littlewood
- Choreographer
- Joan Littlewood
- Producer
- David Merrick
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 Oh What a Lovely War at all.
- No show page for Oh What a Lovely War. 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.