Theatre Register

The Iceman Cometh, 1946

Shows · Martin Beck Theatre, 1946

Original BroadwayAl Hirschfeld Theatre 136 performances

The run closed March 15, 1947

Opened
October 9, 1946
Closed
March 15, 1947
Performances
136
Previews
Theatre
Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 186th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Iceman Cometh 4 more that season

1973 Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Theodore Mann 85 perf.
1985 Lunt Fontanne Theatre Revival · José Quintero 55 perf.
1999 Brooks Atkinson Theatre Revival · Howard Davies 102 perf.
2018 Bernard B Jacobs Theatre Revival · George C. Wolfe 67 perf.

Who was in it22 named

Jeanne Cagney
Leo Chalzel
Paul Crabtree
Dudley Digges
Ruth Gilbert
Marcella Markham
Joe Marr
John Marriott
E G Marshall
Al Mcgranary
Carl Benton Reid
Morton L Stevens
Frank Tweddell
Michael Wyler
Earle Larimore
Anna Minot
Anna Minot Warren

5 of these 22 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
Eddie Dowling
Producer
The Theatre Guild (Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner: Administrative Directors)

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 Iceman Cometh at all.
  • No show page for The Iceman Cometh. 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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