The run closed April 29, 1959
- Opened
- January 9, 1947
- Closed
- April 29, 1959
- Performances
- 148
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Adelphi Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 182nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Other stagings of Street Scene 1 more that season
| 1929 | Playhouse Theatre Original | 601 perf. |
Who was in it42 named
Helen Arden
Bennett Burrill
Ellen Carleen
Joyce Carrol
Norma Chambers
Marion Covey
Juliana Gallagher
Russell George
Lauren Gilbert
Peter Griffith
Zosia Gruchala
Beverly Janis
Irving Kaufman
Ellen Lane
Paul Lilly
Remo Lota
Roy Munsell
Edwin G Oconnor
Robert Pierson
Sydney Rayner
Edward Reichert
Ellen Repp
Joseph E Scandur
Wilson Smith
John Sweet
Randolph Symonette
Ernest Taylor
David E Thomas
Creighton Thompson
Norman Thompson
Peggy Turnley
Bette van
10 of these 42 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 32 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
- Charles Friedman
- Choreographer
- Anna Sokolow
- Producer
- Dwight Deere Wiman & The Playwrights’ Co.
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.
Around this production
- Another hopeful sign is the number of opera companies that have added musical theatre works to their repertoires. Not only does this help break down artificial barriers, it also creates new audiences for such notable examples as the Kern-Hammerstein Show Boat , the Gershwin-Heyward Porgy and Bess , the Rodgers-Hammerst… Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 13
- Bond, Ruth Street Scene, 132 Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 353
- The trend started in the late 1940s with such works as Kurt Weill’s Street Scene and Gian-Carlo Menotti’s The Telephone and The Medium , all of which premiered in 1947, and Marc Blitzstein’s Regina (1949). In the 1950s, the trend continued Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 3
- City Opera’s revival of Kurt Weill’s Street Scene was the second of eight revivals by the company over a thirty-one-year period. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 814
- Brady’s film ventures began in 1913 and continued until 1920. Later productions produced by Brady include The Ruined Lady (1/19/20; 176 performances), The Skin Game (10/20/20; 176 performances), Street Scene (PULITZER Prize) (1/10/29; 601 performances), and A Church Mouse (10/12/31; 164 performances). Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 101
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
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 Street Scene at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.