Theatre Register

The Man Who Came to Dinner, 1939

Shows · Music Box Theatre, 1939

Original BroadwayMusic Box Theatre 739 performances

The run closed July 12, 1941

Opened
October 16, 1939
Closed
July 12, 1941
Performances
739
Previews
Theatre
Music Box Theatre

Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 6th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Man Who Came to Dinner 2 more that season

1980 Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Stephen Porter 85 perf.
2000 American Airlines Theatre Revival · Jerry Zaks 85 perf.

Who was in it43 named

Barbara Adams
Edward Fisher
Carol Goodner
Virginia Hammond
Michael Harvey
Carl Johnson
Curtis Karpe
Daniel Landon
Donald Landon
Daniel Leone
George Lessey
Gordon Merrick
Mrs Priestly Morrison
Theodore Newton
Edmonia Nolley
Le Roi Operti
William Postance
George Probert
Dewitt Purdue
Robert Rea
Phil Sheridan
Rodney Stewart
Ruth Vivian
Charles Washington
Jack Whitman
Barbara Wooddell
Jean Carmen
Sara Floyd
Muriel Hutchison
Jack Leslie
Claudia Morgan
Rex O Malley
James Rawls
Stephen Sandes
Barry Sullivan
Lawrence Tibbett Jr
Leone Wilson

6 of these 43 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 37 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
Sam H. Harris

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 Man Who Came to Dinner at all.
  • No director named.
  • No show page for The Man Who Came to Dinner. 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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