The run closed October 15, 1940
- Opened
- October 7, 1940
- Closed
- October 15, 1940
- Performances
- 6
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- 44th Street Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 736th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Pirates Of Penzance 19 more that season
| 1879 | Fifth Avenue Theatre Original | |
| 1900 | American Theatre Revival | 8 perf. |
| 1912 | Casino Theatre Revival · William J. Wilson | 28 perf. |
| 1915 | 48th Street Theatre Revival · Herbert Cripps | 4 perf. |
| 1918 | Park Theatre Revival | |
| 1926 | Plymouth Theatre Revival · Winthrop Ames | 128 perf. |
| 1927 | Royale Theatre Revival | 10 perf. |
| 1931 | Erlangers Theatre Revival · Milton Aborn | 24 perf. |
| 1933 | Majestic Theatre Revival | 8 perf. |
| 1934 | Majestic Theatre Revival · Lee Daly | 16 perf. |
| 1935 | Adelphi Theatre Revival · R.H. Burnside | 12 perf. |
| 1936 | Martin Beck Theatre Revival | 20 perf. |
| 1939 | Martin Beck Theatre Revival | |
| 1946 | City Center Revival · Eugene S. Bryden | 4 perf. |
| 1949 | Mark Hellinger Theatre Revival | 8 perf. |
| 1952 | Mark Hellinger Theatre Revival | 8 perf. |
| 1955 | Shubert Theatre Revival · Robert A. Gibson | 8 perf. |
| 1976 | Uris Theatre Revival · Michael Heyland | 8 perf. |
| 1981 | Uris Theatre Revival · Wilford Leach | 772 perf. |
Who was in it51 named
Sibyl Baubre
Reta Baum
Lillian C Bennett
Carlton Bentley
Miriam Bentley
Jeanette Bittner
Jane Bivins
Ernest Brown
William Calvin
Agnes Cassidy
James Chartrand
Anne Dawson
Robert de Lany
Marilois Ditto
Thomas Donahue
Ernest Eames
Robert Eckles
Marie Fox
Anna Handzlik
Clifford Jackson
Catherine Judah
Frank Kierman
Kathleen Killcoyne
Marjorie King
Michael Kozak
Kathryn Lewis
Frederick Loadwick
Dana Maddocks
Glenn Martyn
Regina Mcmahon
Ellen Merrill
Mary Margaret Merrill
Sidney Morton
Dorothea Mueller
James Pease
Rupert Pole
Phyllis Rand
Paul Reed
Avonelle Schaffer
Allen Stewart
Frank Stone
Mary ten Eyck
Evans Thornton
Walter Tibbetts
Janet Webb
Gabrielle Winship
Carol Wolfe
Dean Gehring
Charles Latterner
Mary Roche
Leonard Stocker
0 of these 51 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 51 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
- Charles Alan
- Choreographer
- Charles Alan
- Producer
- Lyric Opera Co.
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 Pirates Of Penzance at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.