The run closed February 7, 1948
- Opened
- December 26, 1947
- Closed
- February 7, 1948
- Performances
- 34
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 403rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Cradle Will Rock 1 more that season
| 1938 | Windsor Theatre Original · Orson Welles | 108 perf. |
Who was in it33 named
Lucretia Anderson
Howard Blaine
Robert Burr
Taggart Casey
Rex Coston
Chandler Cowles
Stephen West Downer
Brooks Dunbar
John Fleming
Ray Fry
Edmund Hewitt
Gil Houston
Jo Hurt
Dennis King Jr
Marie Leidal
Leslie Litomy
Harold Patrick
Robert Pierson
Michael Pollock
Germaine Poulin
Napoleon Reed
Walter Scheff
Hazel Shermet
David Thomas
Gwen Ward
8 of these 33 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 25 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
- Howard Da Silva
- Producer
- Michael Myerberg
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 Cradle Will Rock at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.