Theatre Register

The Insect Comedy, 1948

Shows · City Center, 1948

Original BroadwayCity Center14 performances

The run closed June 12, 1948

Opened
June 3, 1948
Closed
June 12, 1948
Performances
14
Previews
Theatre
City Center

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 578th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it27 named

Ted Allegretti
Tom Avera
Bobby Busch
Mack Busch
Chevi Colton
George Coulouris
Rita Gam
Claire Hale
George Hall
Joyce Hill
Phyllis Hill
Betty Low
Annabelle Lyon
Arthur Newman
Thomas Poston
Alexander Scourby
Mildred Joanne Smith
Robinson Stone
Sidney Walters
Bert Whitley

7 of these 27 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 20 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
José Ferrer
Choreographer
José Ferrer
Producer
New York City Theatre Company

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 Insect Comedy at all.
  • No show page for The Insect Comedy. 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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