The run closed August 13, 2000
- Opened
- April 17, 2000
- Closed
- August 13, 2000
- Performances
- 136
- Previews
- 24
- Theatre
- Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 129th 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. |
| 1984 | Plymouth Theatre Revival · Mike Nichols | 566 perf. |
| 2014 | American Airlines Theatre Revival · Sam Gold | 76 perf. |
Who was in it7 named
Stephen Dillane
Jennifer Ehle
Joshua Henderson
Nigel Lindsay
Charlotte Parry
Oscar Pearce
Sarah Woodward
0 of these 7 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 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
- David Leveaux
- Producer
- Anita Waxman
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.