The Front Page, 1969

The run closed July 5, 1969

Opened

May 10, 1969

Closed

July 5, 1969

Performances

64

Previews

4

Theatre

Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 245th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Front Page 4 more that season

Who was in it24 named

R

Robert Ryan—

Bert Convy1933–1991

J

Jesse White—

Val Avery
Peggy Cass
James Flavin
Conrad Janis
John Mcgiver
Julia Meade
Doro Merande
Charles White
Tom Atkins
Patrick Desmond
Walter Flanagan
Morison Gampel
Geoff Garland
Will Gregory
Rick Hagan
Scott Hagan
Katharine Houghton
Robert Milli
Don Porter
Ed Riley
Arnold Stang

3 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 21 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

Harold J. Kennedy

Producer

Theater 1969 (Edward Albee, Richard Barr, Charles Woodward)

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.
• 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.