The Big Knife, 1949

The run closed May 28, 1949

Opened

February 24, 1949

Closed

May 28, 1949

Performances

109

Previews

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Theatre

Nederlander Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 223rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Big Knife 1 more that season

Who was in it12 named

John Garfield
J Edward Bromberg
Nancy Kelly
Paul Mcgrath
John Mckee
Theodore Newton
Mary Patton
Leona Powers
William Terry
Frank Wilson

2 of these 12 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 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

Lee Strasberg

Producer

Dwight Deere Wiman

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 Big Knife at all.
• No show page for The Big Knife. 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.