Theatre Register

Romeo and Juliet, 1956

Shows · Winter Garden Theatre, 1956

Revival BroadwayWinter Garden Theatre 29 performances

The run closed January 12, 1957

Opened
October 24, 1956
Closed
January 12, 1957
Performances
29
Previews
Theatre
Winter Garden Theatre

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 405th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Romeo and Juliet 24 more that season

1754 New Theatre Original
1869 Booths Theatre Revival
1899 Empire Theatre Revival
1904 Knickerbocker Theatre Revival
1905 Knickerbocker Theatre Revival
1907 Lyric Theatre Revival
1909 New Amsterdam Theatre Revival
1910 Academy Of Music Revival
1911 Dalys Theatre Revival
1912 Manhattan Opera House Revival
1913 Manhattan Opera House Revival
1915 44th Street Theatre Revival
1918 44th Street Theatre Revival
1922 48th Street Theatre Revival
1923 Henry Millers Theatre Revival · Frank Reicher 157 perf.
1930 Civic Repertory Theatre Revival · Eva Le Gallienne 16 perf.
1934 Martin Beck Theatre Revival · Guthrie McClintic 77 perf.
1935 Martin Beck Theatre Revival · Martha Graham 15 perf.
1940 51st Street Theatre Revival · Robert Ross 36 perf.
1951 Broadhurst Theatre Revival · Peter Glenville 49 perf.
1962 City Center Revival · Franco Zeffirelli
1977 Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Theodore Mann 77 perf.
1986 Belasco Theatre Revival · Estelle Parsons
2013 Richard Rodgers Theatre Revival · David Leveaux 93 perf.

Who was in it34 named

Ronald Allen
Claire Bloom
Peter Bowles
Jeremy Brett
Graeme Campbell
Wynne Clark
Juliet Cooke
Margaret Courtenay
Charles Gray
Jack Gwillim
Ernest Hare
Edward Harvey
Denis Holmes
Sally Home
Donald Homer
Marion Hood
Fraser Kerr
Tom Kneebone
Aubrey Morris
Daniel Moynihan
Peter Needham
John Neville
Derek New
Timothy Parkes
Alan Penn
Bryan Pringle
Paul Rogers
Job Stewart
Keith Taylor
James Villiers
Charles West
Jennifer Wilson
John Woodvine
Richard Wordsworth

0 of these 34 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 34 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
Robert Helpmann
Producer
Old Vic Trust, Ltd.

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 Romeo and Juliet at all.
  • No show page for Romeo and Juliet. 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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