The run closed October 8, 1955
- Opened
- October 6, 1955
- Closed
- October 8, 1955
- Performances
- 8
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Shubert Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 568th 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 | |
| 1940 | 44th Street Theatre Revival · Charles Alan | 6 perf. |
| 1946 | City Center Revival · Eugene S. Bryden | 4 perf. |
| 1949 | Mark Hellinger Theatre Revival | 8 perf. |
| 1952 | Mark Hellinger Theatre Revival | 8 perf. |
| 1976 | Uris Theatre Revival · Michael Heyland | 8 perf. |
| 1981 | Uris Theatre Revival · Wilford Leach | 772 perf. |
Who was in it10 named
Donald Adams
Margaret Dobson
Ann Drummond Grant
Neville Griffiths
Muriel Harding
Trevor Hills
Fisher Morgan
Joy Mornay
Peter Pratt
Joyce Wright
0 of these 10 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 A. Gibson
- Producer
- D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
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.