The run closed January 11, 1987
- Opened
- November 23, 1986
- Closed
- January 11, 1987
- Performances
- 57
- Previews
- 28
- Theatre
- Vivian Beaumont Theater
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 212th 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
| 1928 | Times Square Theatre Original · George S. Kaufman | 276 perf. |
| 1946 | Royale Theatre Revival | 79 perf. |
| 1969 | Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival · Harold J. Kennedy | 64 perf. |
| 2016 | Broadhurst Theatre Revival · Jack O'Brien | 117 perf. |
Who was in it25 named
Amanda Carlin
Patrick Garner
Julie Hagerty
Ed Lauter
Philip Lestrange
Beverly May
Bernie Mcinerney
Deirdre O Connell
Richard Peterson
Michael Rothhaar
Raymond Serra
Paul Stolarsky
Charles Stransky
Jack Wallace
Trey Wilson
Mary Catherine Wright
Tom Brennan
8 of these 25 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 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
- Jerry Zaks
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.