Theatre Register

The Philadelphia Story, 1939

Shows · Shubert Theatre, 1939

Original BroadwayShubert Theatre 417 performances

The run closed March 30, 1940

Opened
March 28, 1939
Closed
March 30, 1940
Performances
417
Previews
Theatre
Shubert Theatre

Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 21st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Philadelphia Story 1 more that season

1980 Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Ellis Rabb 60 perf.

Who was in it14 named

Lorraine Bate
Owen Coll
Joseph Cotten
Frank Fenton
Philip Foster
Van Heflin
Lenore Lonergan
Forrest Orr
Myrtle Tannehill
Dan Tobin

4 of these 14 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 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
Robert B. Sinclair
Producer
The Theatre Guild (Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner: Administrative Directors)

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 Philadelphia Story at all.
  • No show page for The Philadelphia Story. 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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