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.