The run closed September 18, 1948
- Opened
- September 29, 1947
- Closed
- September 18, 1948
- Performances
- 410
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 73rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Heiress 4 more that season
| 1950 | City Center Revival · George Schaefer | 16 perf. |
| 1976 | Broadhurst Theatre Revival · George Keathley | 23 perf. |
| 1995 | Cort Theatre Revival · Gerald Gutierrez | 340 perf. |
| 2012 | Walter Kerr Theatre Revival · Moisés Kaufman | 117 perf. |
Who was in it15 named
Patricia Collinge
Wendy Hiller
Craig Kelly
Betty Linley
Fiona O Shiel
Jean Platt
Katharine Raht
Basil Rathbone
Augusta Roeland
Helen Horton
Mary Mcnamee
Beatrice Straight
3 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 12 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
- Jed Harris
- Producer
- Fred F. Finklehoffe
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 Heiress at all.
- No show page for The Heiress. 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.