Theatre Register

The Gondoliers, 1944

Shows · Ambassador Theatre, 1944

Revival BroadwayAmbassador Theatre 4 performances

The run closed March 26, 1944

Opened
February 21, 1944
Closed
March 26, 1944
Performances
4
Previews
Theatre
Ambassador Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 793rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

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.
1939 Martin Beck Theatre Revival
1940 44th Street Theatre Revival · Charles Alan 7 perf.
1942 St James Theatre Revival 3 perf.
1948 New Century Theatre Revival · Anna Bethell 16 perf.
1951 St James Theatre Revival · Eleanor Evans 4 perf.

Who was in it16 named

Jean Davis
Robert Eckles
Catherine Judah
Florence Keezel
Mary Lundon
Edwin Marsh
Frank Murray
Roland Partridge
Lewis Pierce
Kathryn Reece
Kathleen Roche
Allen Stewart
Virginia Tyre
Marie Valdez

2 of these 16 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 14 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
R.H. Burnside
Producer
Gilbert and Sullivan 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.
  • 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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