The run closed July 7, 1956
- Opened
- October 24, 1955
- Closed
- July 7, 1956
- Performances
- 297
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadhurst Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 100th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it19 named
Dorothy Blackburn
Frank Milan
Harry Ellerbe
Anne Marie Gayer
Mary Gildea
Sterling Jensen
Frank Roberts
Byron Sanders
Mike Steen
Joyce van Patten
Elizabeth Wilson
Don Briggs
James Lee
Martha Randall
Grace Raynor
4 of these 19 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 15 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
- Joseph Fields
- Producer
- Robert Fryer
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 Desk Set at all.
- No show page for The Desk Set. 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.