The run closed May 26, 1973
- Opened
- May 7, 1973
- Closed
- May 26, 1973
- Performances
- 23
- Previews
- 14
- Theatre
- Bijou Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 351st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Play's the Thing 3 more that season
| 1928 | Empire Theatre Revival · Holbrook Blinn | 24 perf. |
| 1948 | Booth Theatre Revival | 244 perf. |
| 1995 | Criterion Center Stage Right Revival · Gloria Muzio | 45 perf. |
Who was in it6 named
Humphrey Davis
David Dukes
Neil Flanagan
Hugh Franklin
Elizabeth Owens
Fred Stuthman
0 of these 6 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 6 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
- Gene Feist
- Producer
- Robert J. Gibson
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 Play's the Thing at all.
- No show page for The Play's the Thing. 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.