The run closed February 7, 1953
- Opened
- January 20, 1953
- Closed
- February 7, 1953
- Performances
- 23
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Nederlander Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 444th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Bat 3 more that season
| 1920 | Morosco Theatre Original | 867 perf. |
| 1937 | Majestic Theatre Revival | 18 perf. |
| 1980 | Uris Theatre Revival | 20 perf. |
Who was in it11 named
Raymond Bailey
Harry Bannister
Bert Bertram
Laurence Haddon
Peter Hanson
Paula Houston
Harry Shaw Lowe
Zasu Pitts
Charles Proctor
Shepperd Strudwick
Lucile Watson
0 of these 11 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
- Jonathan Seymour
- Producer
- James Withers Elliott
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 Bat at all.
- No show page for The Bat. 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.