The run closed May 10, 1947
- Opened
- March 3, 1947
- Closed
- May 10, 1947
- Performances
- 81
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 264th 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. |
| 1902 | Empire Theatre Revival | 49 perf. |
| 1921 | Bramhall Playhouse Revival | 44 perf. |
| 1926 | Comedy Theatre Revival · Dudley Digges | 70 perf. |
| 1977 | Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Stephen Porter | 85 perf. |
| 2011 | American Airlines Theatre Revival · Brian Bedford | 189 perf. |
Who was in it8 named
Jane Baxter
Pamela Brown
Jean Cadell
Stringer Davis
Robert Flemyng
John Kidd
Margaret Rutherford
Richard Wordsworth
0 of these 8 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 8 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
- 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 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.