The run closed May 3, 1958
- Opened
- November 20, 1957
- Closed
- May 3, 1958
- Performances
- 189
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- James Earl Jones Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 144th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it11 named
Art Carney
Siobh N Mckenna
Joan Blondell
Joseph Boland
William Edmonson
Joseph Julian
Beverly Lunsford
Siobhan Mckenna
Barbara Ellen Myers
Bert Freed
1 of these 11 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 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
- Peter Hall
- Producer
- The Playwrights' Company (Maxwell Anderson; Robert Anderson; Elmer Rice; Roger L. Stevens; John F. Wharton)
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 Rope Dancers at all.
- No show page for The Rope Dancers. 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.