Theatre Register

The Caretaker, 1961

Shows · Lyceum Theatre, 1961

Original BroadwayLyceum Theatre 165 performances

The run closed February 24, 1962

Opened
October 4, 1961
Closed
February 24, 1962
Performances
165
Previews
Theatre
Lyceum Theatre

Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 137th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

The theatre record for this run is wrong

This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.

Other stagings of The Caretaker 2 more that season

1986 Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · John Malkovich 45 perf.
2003 American Airlines Theatre Revival · David Jones 63 perf.

Who was in it4 named

Alan Bates
Donald Pleasence
Alexander Davion

1 of these 4 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 3 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
Donald McWhinnie
Producer
Roger L. Stevens

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 Caretaker at all.
  • No show page for The Caretaker. 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.

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