The run closed September 27, 1955
- Opened
- December 8, 1954
- Closed
- September 27, 1955
- Performances
- 334
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Richard Rodgers Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 90th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it14 named
Nancy Kelly
Joan Croydon
George Gino
Lloyd Gough
Joseph Holland
Henry Jones
Patty Mccormack
John O Hare
Wells Richardson
Evelyn Varden
Ted Mann
3 of these 14 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 11 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
- The Playwrights' Company (Maxwell Anderson; S.N. Behrman; Elmer Rice; Robert E. Sherwood; Sidney Howard)
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 The Bad Seed at all.
- No show page for The Bad Seed. 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.