The run closed September 9, 1950
- Opened
- August 17, 1950
- Closed
- September 9, 1950
- Performances
- 28
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Playhouse Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 415th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Who was in it16 named
Heywood Hale Broun
Peggy Cass
John Drew Colt
Elspeth Eric
Elliott Reid
Chester Stratton
Joseph G Sullivan
Ned Wertimer
Rex Williams
George Hall
6 of these 16 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
- Producer
- Michael Todd
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 Live Wire at all.
- No director named.
- No show page for The Live Wire. 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.