Theatre Register

Pygmalion, 1869

Shows · Waverley Theatre, 1869

Original BroadwayWaverley Theatre10 performances

The run closed May 25, 1869

Opened
May 15, 1869
Closed
May 25, 1869
Performances
10
Previews
Theatre
Waverley Theatre

Of the 119 productions we hold that opened in the 1860s and record a performance count, this is the 92nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Pygmalion 6 more that season

1914 Park Theatre Revival 72 perf.
1926 Guild Theatre Revival · Dudley Digges 143 perf.
1938 Maxine Elliotts Theatre Revival 4 perf.
1945 Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival · Cedric Hardwicke 179 perf.
1987 Plymouth Theatre Revival · Val May 113 perf.
2007 American Airlines Theatre Revival · David Grindley 69 perf.

Who was in it12 named

Annie Campion
James C Dunn
Minnie Jackson
Charles T Parsloe
Emily Pitt
Mary Pitt
Betty Rigl
Emily Rigl
Felix Rogers
Belvil Ryan
Jenny Willmore
Lizzie Wilmore

0 of these 12 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 12 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

Producer
London Burlesque Combination

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 Pygmalion at all.
  • No director named.
  • No show page for Pygmalion. 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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