The run closed May 27, 1950
- Opened
- May 18, 1950
- Closed
- May 27, 1950
- Performances
- 12
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadhurst Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 545th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Liar 1 more that season
| 1896 | Hoyts Theatre Original |
Who was in it26 named
Karen Lindgren
Walter Matthau
Barbara Moser
May Muth
William Myers
Marybelle Norton
Margery Oldroyd
Robert Penn
Lawrence Weber
Lee Wilcox
16 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 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
- Alfred Drake
- Choreographer
- Hanya Holm
- Producer
- Dorothy Willard and Thomas Hammond
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.
Around this production
- The Liar was probably doomed before its first backers’ audition. The musical took place in Italy, and musicals set there are almost guaranteed to flop. There have been a few exceptions, such as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) and Nine (1982), but the odds are against success: over three dozen musi… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 61
- As mentioned, Eythe replaced Dennis Harrison during the tryout of The Liar (three photographs from the production accompany the musical’s entry on page 108 of Theatre World Season 1949–1950 ; two small photos identify the performers, but the third, and larger, photo doesn’t; it seems that the handsome performer wearing… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 64
- The six book musicals for which it appears no songs have been commercially recorded are: Happy as Larry, The Liar, Jotham Valley, Hit the Trail, Portofino, and Happy Town. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 875
- Besides Johnny Johnson, Russell Collins also appeared in short-lived The Liar in 1950. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 451
- Only marginally less disastrous were The Liar (12), from the play about a sixteenth-century lothario by Carlo Goldoni, and Great to Be Alive! (52). West End Broadway the Golden Age of the American Musical Adrian Wright Boydell B, p. 85
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
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 Liar at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.