The run closed May 18, 1957
- Opened
- April 25, 1957
- Closed
- May 18, 1957
- Performances
- 28
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Belasco Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 415th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it27 named
Wesley Addy
Joyce Ballou
Dario Barri
Helen Burns
Ludi Claire
Phena Darner
Peter Donat
Edward Dunne
Isobel Elsom
Macgregor Gibb
Robert Goodier
Frances Greet
Sally Kemp
Curt Lowens
John Milligan
James Neylin
Le Roi Operti
Edmund Roney
Rossana San Marco
Dorothy Sands
Maud Scheerer
Earl Simmons
Guy Spaull
Meg Wyllie
3 of these 27 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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
- Tyrone Guthrie
- 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 First Gentleman at all.
- No show page for The First Gentleman. 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.