The run closed January 17, 1959
- Opened
- December 5, 1957
- Closed
- January 17, 1959
- Performances
- 468
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Music Box Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 60th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it16 named
Teresa Wright
Evans Evans
Timmy Everett
Frank Overton
Carl Reindel
Judith Robinson
Charles Saari
Jonathan Shawn
George L Smith
Don Briggs
Sandy Dennis
Edward Earle
Doug Lambert
3 of these 16 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 13 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
- Producer
- Arnold Saint-Subber
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 Dark at the Top of the Stairs at all.
- No director named.
- No show page for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. 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.