The Cocktail Party, 1950

The run closed January 13, 1951

Opened

January 21, 1950

Closed

January 13, 1951

Performances

409

Previews

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Theatre

Henry Millers Theatre

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 71st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Cocktail Party 1 more that season

Who was in it11 named

Cathleen Nesbitt1888–1982

Robert Flemyng
Alec Guinness
Grey Blake
Ernest Clark
Irene Worth
Henry Daniell
Hugh Williams
Faith Brook
Robin Craven
Carol Goodner

1 of these 11 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

E. Martin Browne

Producer

Sherek Players, Ltd.

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 Cocktail Party at all.
• No show page for The Cocktail Party. 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.