The Playboy of the Western World, 1971

The run closed February 20, 1971

Opened

January 7, 1971

Closed

February 20, 1971

Performances

52

Previews

13

Theatre

Vivian Beaumont Theater

Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 260th 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 it17 named

David Birney
James Blendick
James Cook
Maury Cooper
Tandy Cronyn
Stephen Elliott
Herbert Foster
Ray Fry
Martha Henry
Elizabeth Huddle
Macon Mccalman
Peter Nyberg
Susan Sharkey
Frances Sternhagen
Dan Sullivan
Sydney Walker

1 of these 17 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 16 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

John Hirsch

Producer

Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center (under the direction of Jules Irving)

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.