Theatre Register

Picnic, 1953

Shows · Music Box Theatre, 1953

Revival BroadwayMusic Box Theatre 477 performances

The run closed April 10, 1954

Opened
February 19, 1953
Closed
April 10, 1954
Performances
477
Previews
Theatre
Music Box Theatre

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 55th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Picnic 3 more that season

1934 National Theatre Original · Kaye Lowe 2 perf.
1994 Criterion Center Stage Right Revival · Scott Ellis 45 perf.
2013 American Airlines Theatre Revival · Sam Gold 49 perf.

Who was in it17 named

Ralph Meeker
Ruth Mcdevitt
Morris Miller
Arthur O Connell
Kim Stanley
Elizabeth Wilson
Dulcie Cooper
Fred Eisley
Betty Lou Holland
Louise Larabee
Eleanor Phelps

6 of these 17 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 11 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
Marshall Jamison
Producer
The Theatre Guild (Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner: Administrative Directors)

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 Picnic at all.
  • No show page for Picnic. 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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