The run closed October 31, 1953
- Opened
- October 30, 1953
- Closed
- October 31, 1953
- Performances
- 3
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- New Century Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 682nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Sherlock Holmes 6 more that season
| 1899 | Garrick Theatre Original | 256 perf. |
| 1902 | Knickerbocker Theatre Revival | 28 perf. |
| 1910 | Empire Theatre Revival | |
| 1928 | Cosmopolitan Theatre Revival · Clifford Brook | 16 perf. |
| 1929 | New Amsterdam Theatre Revival · William Postance | 45 perf. |
| 1974 | Broadhurst Theatre Revival · Frank Dunlop | 471 perf. |
Who was in it20 named
Martin Brandt
John Dodsworth
Margit Forsagren
Thomas Gomez
Elwyn Harvey
Bryan Herbert
Alfred A Hesse
Terrance Kilburn
Gregory Morton
Jarmila Novotna
Mary Orr
Eileen Peel
St John Phillipe
Jack Raine
Basil Rathbone
Ludwig Roth
Arthur Stenning
Chester Stratton
Evan Thomas
Richard Wendley
0 of these 20 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 20 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
- Reginald Denham
- Producer
- Bill Doll
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 Sherlock Holmes at all.
- No show page for Sherlock Holmes. 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.