The run closed February 2, 1957
- Opened
- December 5, 1955
- Closed
- February 2, 1957
- Performances
- 486
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 51st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it20 named
Ruth Gordon
Loring Smith
Peter Bayliss
Esme Church
Rosamund Greenwood
Patrick Mcalinney
Alexander Davion
Charity Grace
William Lanteau
Philip Leeds
John Milligan
Prunella Scales
Christine Thomas
Timothy Findley
Mari Lynn
Diana Rivers
Patricia Cutts
3 of these 20 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 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
- Tyrone Guthrie
- Producer
- The Theatre Guild
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 Matchmaker at all.
- No show page for The Matchmaker. 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.