The run closed January 14, 1950
- Opened
- November 16, 1949
- Closed
- January 14, 1950
- Performances
- 69
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- James Earl Jones Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 282nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Father 4 more that season
| 1928 | Belmont Theatre Revival · Alan Dinehart | 8 perf. |
| 1962 | Cort Theatre Revival · Bengt Ekerot | 3 perf. |
| 1981 | Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Göran Graffman | 29 perf. |
| 1996 | Criterion Center Stage Right Revival · Clifford Williams | 52 perf. |
Who was in it6 named
Mady Christians
Philip Huston
Grace Kelly
Paul Larson
Mary Morris
John D Seymour
0 of these 6 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 6 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
- Raymond Massey
- Producer
- Richard W. Krakeur
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 Father at all.
- No show page for The Father. 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.