The Front Page, 1928

The run dates incomplete

Opened

August 14, 1928

Closed

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Performances

276

Previews

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Theatre

Times Square Theatre

Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 125th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.

Other stagings of The Front Page 4 more that season

Who was in it24 named

Eduardo Ciannelli1889–1969

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Allen Jenkins—

Walter Baldwin
George Barbier
Violet Barney
Frank Conlan
Claude Cooper
Jessie Crommette
Matthew Crowley
Larry Doyle
George Fleming
William Foran
Frances Fuller
George Leach
Osgood Perkins
Willard Robertson
Joseph Spurin Calleia
Dorothy Stickney
Lee Tracy
Carrie Weller
Gene West
Jay Wilson
Vincent York
Tammany Young

2 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 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

George S. Kaufman

Producer

Jed Harris

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 Front Page at all.
• When it closed.
• No show page for The Front Page. 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.