The run closed May 6, 1944
- Opened
- August 4, 1943
- Closed
- May 6, 1944
- Performances
- 322
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Majestic Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 95th 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. |
| 1942 | Carnegie Hall Revival · John Pierce | 39 perf. |
| 1944 | City Center Revival · Felix Brentano | 32 perf. |
Who was in it56 named
David Adhar
Alexandra Alexander
Alan Banks
George Buzante
Jerome Cardinale
Arline Carmen
Eddie Dane
Dennis Dengate
Mark Farrington
Robert Field
Frank Finn
Marie Fox
Josephine Griffin
John Harrold
Babs Heath
Etheleyne Holt
Bobbie Howell
Janie Janvier
Irene Jordan
Morgan Kendall
Jan Kiepura
Robert la Marr
Zoya Leporska
Nicholas Magallenes
Ruth Matteson
Florence Mcgovern
Milada Mladova
Frank Moncion
Doris Pape
Birute Ramoska
Renee Rochelle
Lubow Roudenko
Albert Schiller
Arnold Spector
Nathaniel Sprinzena
Nicholas Torzs
Robert Tower
Peggy Turnley
Alan Vaughan
Lisette Verea
Edward Visca
Chris Volkoff
Jane Ward
Marya Woczeska
Frances Yeend
Stanley Zompakos
C K Alexander
9 of these 56 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 47 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
- Felix Brentano
- Choreographer
- Felix Brentano
- Producer
- Yolanda Mero-Irian
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.