Theatre Register

The Miracle Worker, 1959

Shows · Playhouse Theatre, 1959

Original BroadwayPlayhouse Theatre 719 performances

The run closed July 1, 1961

Opened
October 19, 1959
Closed
July 1, 1961
Performances
719
Previews
Theatre
Playhouse Theatre

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 21st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

The theatre record for this run is wrong

This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.

Other stagings of The Miracle Worker 1 more that season

2010 Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Kate Whoriskey 28 perf.

Who was in it25 named

Anne Bancroft
Patty Duke
Dale Ellen Bethea
Juanita Bethea
Miriam Butler
Kathleen Comegys
James Congdon
Michael Constantine
Roger de Koven
Caswell Fairweather
Lori Heineman
Rita Levy
Eileen Musumeci
Patricia Neal
Donna Pastore
Lynn Schoenfeld
Torin Thatcher
Karen Lee
R G Armstrong
Mary Bell
Clifford Cothren
Candace Culkin
Jack Hollander
Suzanne Pleshette

1 of these 25 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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
Arthur Penn
Producer
Fred Coe

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 Miracle Worker at all.
  • No show page for The Miracle Worker. 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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