The run closed May 12, 1956
- Opened
- May 10, 1956
- Closed
- May 12, 1956
- Performances
- 4
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 652nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it38 named
Mario Alcalde
Patricia Allaben
Harry Bergman
George Berkeley
William Bramley
Robert Burr
Frances Chaney
Charles Chaucer
Bert Conway
Robert Dowdell
Graham Eastham
George Ebeling
Bramwell Fletcher
Hurd Hatfield
Gerald Hiken
Robert Jacquin
Page Johnson
Robert Lansing
John Mackay
Edith Martin
Darren Mcgavin
Emily Mclaughlin
Byron Mitchell
Earl Montgomery
Vivian Nathan
Lester Rawlins
Peggy Richards
Pernell Roberts
Lena Romano
Norman Rose
Ed Setrakian
Kathe Snyder
Gayne Sullivan
George Tyne
Norman Wigutow
Joanne Woodward
2 of these 38 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 36 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
- Michael Gordon
- Choreographer
- Michael Gordon
- Producer
- The Playwrights' Company (Maxwell Anderson; S.N. Behrman; Elmer Rice; Robert E. Sherwood; Sidney Howard)
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 Lovers at all.
- No show page for The Lovers. 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.