The run closed November 4, 1944
- Opened
- October 7, 1944
- Closed
- November 4, 1944
- Performances
- 32
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- City Center
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 407th 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. |
| 1943 | Majestic Theatre Revival · Felix Brentano | 322 perf. |
Who was in it50 named
Xenia Bank
Stanton Barrett
Joseph Bellafiore
Aleks Bird
Alice Borbus
Katherine Borron
Mary Broussard
Norman Budd
Jon Carlson
Rita Charise
Charles Chartier
Connie Clark
Dennis Dengate
Gordon Dilworth
Louis Friedman
Irene Gans
Jack Gansert
Barbara Gaye
Beatrice Gordon
John Harrold
Colin Harvey
Babs Heath
Lucy Hillary
George Karle
Jan Kiepura
Bruce Laffey
Nils Landin
Jeffrey Longe
Joseph Monte
Alfred D Morgan
Annette Norman
Doris Parker
Nina Popova
Alfred Porter
Dorothy Ramsay
Jan Rankin
Mary Rankin
Ward Richard
Ernest Richman
Georgette Rolandez
Teddi Sanders
Maxine Schraeder
Alice Tisen
Terry Townes
Leona Vanni
Alan Vaughan
Lisette Verea
Stanley Zompakos
2 of these 50 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 48 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.