Theatre Register

The Gondoliers, 1939

Shows · Martin Beck Theatre, 1939

Revival BroadwayAl Hirschfeld Theatre

The run dates incomplete

Opened
January 5, 1939
Closed
Performances
Previews
Theatre
Al Hirschfeld Theatre

No performance count on this record. 2,834 of 13,459 productions are missing one, so a blank here means unrecorded, not a short run.

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 Gondoliers 11 more that season

1890 Palmers Theatre Original
1918 Park Theatre Revival
1931 Erlangers Theatre Revival · Milton Aborn 16 perf.
1932 Erlangers Theatre Revival · Milton Aborn 8 perf.
1934 Martin Beck Theatre Revival · James McRobbie Gordon 19 perf.
1935 Adelphi Theatre Revival · R.H. Burnside 12 perf.
1940 44th Street Theatre Revival · Charles Alan 7 perf.
1942 St James Theatre Revival 3 perf.
1944 Ambassador Theatre Revival · R.H. Burnside 4 perf.
1948 New Century Theatre Revival · Anna Bethell 16 perf.
1951 St James Theatre Revival · Eleanor Evans 4 perf.

Who was in it18 named

Margery Abbott
Maysie Dean
John Dudley
Richard Dunn
Marjorie Eyre
Marjorie Flinn
Radley Flynn
Evelyn Gardiner
Sydney Granville
Ella Halman
T Penry Hughes
Leonard Osborn
Leslie Rands
Helen Roberts
Ivy Sanders
William Sumner
Viola Wilson

1 of these 18 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

Producer
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

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 Gondoliers at all.
  • When it closed.
  • No performance count.
  • No director named.
  • No show page for The Gondoliers. 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.

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