The run closed April 10, 1977
- Opened
- February 17, 1977
- Closed
- April 10, 1977
- Performances
- 62
- Previews
- 20
- Theatre
- Vivian Beaumont Theater
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 242nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Cherry Orchard 10 more that season
| 1923 | Jolsons 59th Street Theatre Original | 18 perf. |
| 1924 | Jolsons 59th Street Theatre Return-Engagement | 8 perf. |
| 1928 | Bijou Theatre Revival | 5 perf. |
| 1929 | Civic Repertory Theatre Revival · Eva Le Gallienne | 14 perf. |
| 1933 | New Amsterdam Theatre Revival | 30 perf. |
| 1944 | National Theatre Revival · Eva Le Gallienne | 96 perf. |
| 1968 | Lyceum Theatre Revival · Jack O'Brien | 38 perf. |
| 1970 | Anta Playhouse Revival · John Fernald | 5 perf. |
| 1997 | Martin Beck Theatre Revival · Galina Volchek | 12 perf. |
| 2016 | American Airlines Theatre Revival · Simon Godwin | 57 perf. |
Who was in it20 named
John Ahlberg
C K Alexander
Suzanne Collins
Michael Cristofer
Jon Devries
William Duff Griffin
C S Hayward
Mary Beth Hurt
Diane Lane
Dwight Marfield
Ben Masters
Jim Siering
Priscilla Smith
Meryl Streep
George Voskovec
Irene Worth
Max Wright
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
- Andrei Serban
- Producer
- The New York Shakespeare Festival (Joseph Papp, Producer)
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 Cherry Orchard at all.
- No show page for The Cherry Orchard. 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.