The run closed August 16, 1942
- Opened
- July 15, 1942
- Closed
- August 16, 1942
- Performances
- 39
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Carnegie Hall
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 376th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Merry Widow 5 more that season
| 1907 | New Amsterdam Theatre Original · George Marion | 416 perf. |
| 1921 | Knickerbocker Theatre Revival · George Marion | 56 perf. |
| 1931 | Erlangers Theatre Revival · Milton Aborn | 32 perf. |
| 1943 | Majestic Theatre Revival · Felix Brentano | 322 perf. |
| 1944 | City Center Revival · Felix Brentano | 32 perf. |
Who was in it62 named
Harriet Adler
Jimmy Allison
Kay Alton
Lief Argo
Richard Audre
Deanne Benmore
Joan Benoit
Harriet Borger
Tonya Cherney
John Cherry
Ray Cook
Diana Corday
Jean Cumming
Robert Curi
Dan Denton
Elaine Ellis
Nicolai Fatula
Neil Fitzgerald
Michael Fitzmaurice
Eddie Garr
Marie Grey
Virginia Harriot
Elizabeth Houston
Eddie Howland
Emily Jewell
Roy Johnston
Audrey Kent
Felix Knight
Anna Konstance
Ann Kus
Mary la Roche
Katherine Lester
Marion Lynn
Ruth Mann
Emily Marsh
Eileen Mcbride
Donna Mission
George Mitchell
Joseph Monte
Mae Muth
Carl Nelson
Irving Rappee
Mary Lou Reed
Arleen Robinson
Grace Rudder
Judy Sargent
John Schindehette
Nat Schultz
Larry Shindel
Benjamin Siegel
Marvel Skeels
Peter Kite Smith
Gene Stern
Mildred Talbot
Robert Tower
Paul L Wendel
Joan Wheatley
5 of these 62 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 57 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
- John Pierce
- Producer
- Joseph Tushinsky
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.
Recordings 4 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against The Merry Widow, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
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.
- Which of the 4 recordings of The Merry Widow document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.