The run closed January 30, 1960
- Opened
- March 10, 1959
- Closed
- January 30, 1960
- Performances
- 375
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 79th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Sweet Bird of Youth 1 more that season
| 1975 | Harkness Theatre Revival · Edwin Sherin | 48 perf. |
Who was in it30 named
Sidney Blackmer
Paul Newman
Geraldine Page
Martine Bartlett
Kenneth Blake
Hilda Brawner
Bruce Dern
Duke Farley
Ron Harper
Diana Hyland
James Jeter
Monica May
Charles Mcdaniel
John Napier
Logan Ramsey
Patricia Ripley
Madeleine Sherwood
Glenn Stensel
Earl Sydnor
Rip Torn
Charles Tyner
Milton J Williams
Jack Betts
Norman Burton
John Karlen
Kip Mcardle
Anne Ramsey
Robert Readick
Hack Rightor
Patricia Sales
0 of these 30 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 30 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
- Elia Kazan
- Producer
- Cheryl Crawford
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 Sweet Bird of Youth at all.
- No show page for Sweet Bird of Youth. 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.