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.