Theatre Register

Point of No Return, 1951

Shows · Alvin Theatre, 1951

Original BroadwayNeil Simon Theatre 356 performances

The run closed November 22, 1952

Opened
December 13, 1951
Closed
November 22, 1952
Performances
356
Previews
Theatre
Neil Simon Theatre

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 85th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it24 named

Phil Arthur
Frances Bavier
Heywood Hale Broun
Madeleine Clive
Frank Conroy
John Cromwell
Leora Dana
Susan Harris
Pitt Herbert
Katherine Hynes
Colin Keith Johnston
Madeleine King
James Macdonald
Davis Roberts
Bartlett Robinson
Robert Ross
Keith Russell
Harriet Selby
Stanley Tackney
Paul Huber
Anne Ives
Gene O Donnell
Charles Taylor

1 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 23 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
H. C. Potter
Producer
Leland Hayward

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 Point of No Return at all.
  • No show page for Point of No Return. 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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