The Playboy of the Western World, 1946

The run closed January 4, 1947

Opened

October 26, 1946

Closed

January 4, 1947

Performances

81

Previews

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Theatre

Booth Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 264th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Playboy of the Western World 6 more that season

Who was in it18 named

Julie Harris—

Burgess Meredith1907–1997

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Mildred Natwick—

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Maureen Stapleton—

Paul Anderson
Mary Diveny
Eithne Dunne
Robin Humphrey
Fred Johnson
Sheila Keddy
J M Kerrigan
Dennis King Jr
Barry Macollum
J C Nugent
James O Neill
Ford Rainey
Mary Lou Taylor
Mary Walker

4 of these 18 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 14 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

Guthrie McClintic

Producer

Theatre Incorporated (Richard Aldrich: Managing Director)

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 Playboy of the Western World at all.
• No show page for The Playboy of the Western World. 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.