Theatre Register

The Duke in Darkness, 1944

Shows · Playhouse Theatre, 1944

Original BroadwayPlayhouse Theatre 24 performances

The run closed February 12, 1944

Opened
January 24, 1944
Closed
February 12, 1944
Performances
24
Previews
Theatre
Playhouse Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 460th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

The theatre record for this run is wrong

This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.

Who was in it10 named

Raymond Burr
Albert Carroll
Ralph Douglas
Louis Hector
Dorman Leonard
Philip Merivale
Wells Richardson
Edgar Stehli
Joseph Vernay

1 of these 10 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 9 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
Robert Henderson
Producer
Alexander H. Cohen

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 Duke in Darkness at all.
  • No show page for The Duke in Darkness. 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.

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