Theatre Register

The Importance of Being Earnest, 1902

Shows · Empire Theatre, 1902

Revival BroadwayEmpire Theatre49 performances

The run closed May 31, 1902

Opened
April 14, 1902
Closed
May 31, 1902
Performances
49
Previews
Theatre
Empire Theatre

Of the 1,071 productions we hold that opened in the 1900s and record a performance count, this is the 407th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Importance of Being Earnest 6 more that season

1895 Empire Theatre Original 40 perf.
1921 Bramhall Playhouse Revival 44 perf.
1926 Comedy Theatre Revival · Dudley Digges 70 perf.
1947 Royale Theatre Revival 81 perf.
1977 Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Stephen Porter 85 perf.
2011 American Airlines Theatre Revival · Brian Bedford 189 perf.

Who was in it10 named

Margaret Anglin
Frank Brownlee
William Courtenay
W H Crompton
Ethel Hornick
Nat Nazarro Jr
George Osbourne
Charles Richman
Mrs Thomas Whiffen

1 of these 10 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 9 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
Charles Frohman

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 Importance of Being Earnest at all.
  • No director named.
  • No show page for The Importance of Being Earnest. 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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