The run closed May 12, 1985
- Opened
- January 5, 1984
- Closed
- May 12, 1985
- Performances
- 566
- Previews
- 16
- Theatre
- Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 40th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Real Thing 3 more that season
| 1911 | Maxine Elliotts Theatre Original | 60 perf. |
| 2000 | Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival · David Leveaux | 136 perf. |
| 2014 | American Airlines Theatre Revival · Sam Gold | 76 perf. |
Who was in it19 named
Jeremy Irons
Christine Baranski
Vyto Ruginis
Kenneth Welsh
Caroline Lagerfelt
Laila Robins
Sara Botsford
Simon Jones
Anthony Fusco
D W Moffett
Campbell Scott
Steven Weber
7 of these 19 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 12 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
- Mike Nichols
- Producer
- Emanuel Azenberg
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 Real Thing at all.
- No show page for The Real 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.