The run closed July 8, 1961
- Opened
- March 31, 1960
- Closed
- July 8, 1961
- Performances
- 520
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Morosco Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 47th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it20 named
Frank Lovejoy
Lee Tracy
Leora Dana
Kathleen Maguire
Ruth Mcdevitt
Joseph Sullivan
Karl Weber
Barbara Berjer
Tony Bickley
Mitchell Erickson
Hugh Franklin
Graham Jarvis
Ruth Maynard
Tom Mcdermott
Ruth Tobin
George Spelvin
Roy Stone
3 of these 20 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 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
- Joseph Anthony
- 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 Best Man at all.
- No show page for The Best Man. 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.