The run closed May 2, 1953
- Opened
- October 24, 1951
- Closed
- May 2, 1953
- Performances
- 632
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 32nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Fourposter 1 more that season
| 1955 | City Center Revival · José Ferrer | 15 perf. |
Who was in it6 named
Hume Cronyn
Jessica Tandy
Betty Field
Sylvia Sidney
2 of these 6 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 4 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
- José Ferrer
- Producer
- The Playwrights' Company (Maxwell Anderson; Elmer Rice; Robert E. Sherwood; Roger L. Stevens; John F. Wharton)
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 Fourposter at all.
- No show page for The Fourposter. 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.