Orpheus Descending, 1957

The run closed May 18, 1957

Opened

March 21, 1957

Closed

May 18, 1957

Performances

68

Previews

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Theatre

Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 265th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Orpheus Descending 1 more that season

Who was in it18 named

R G Armstrong
Virgilia Chew
David Clarke
Crahan Denton
Elizabeth Eustis
Mary Farrell
Nell Harrison
Albert Henderson
Warren Kemmerling
John Marriott
Janice Mars
Cliff Robertson
Joanna Roos
Jane Rose
Lois Smith
Charles Tyner
Robert Webber

1 of these 18 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 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

Harold Clurman

Producer

The Producers Theatre

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 Orpheus Descending at all.
• No show page for Orpheus Descending. 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.