Theatre Register

The Royal Family, 1927

Shows · Selwyn Theatre, 1927

Original BroadwayAmerican Airlines Theatre 345 performances

The run closed October 21, 1928

Opened
December 28, 1927
Closed
October 21, 1928
Performances
345
Previews
Theatre
American Airlines Theatre

Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 76th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Royal Family 3 more that season

1951 City Center Revival · Richard Whorf 15 perf.
1975 Helen Hayes Theatre Revival · Ellis Rabb 233 perf.
2009 Samuel J Friedman Theatre Revival · Doug Hughes 77 perf.

Who was in it20 named

Murray Alper
Ann Andrews
Hubert Courtney
Orlando Daly
Jefferson de Angelis
Catherine Calhoun Doucet
Sylvia Field
Joseph King
Otto Kruger
Lester Nielson
Roger Pryor
Phyllis Rose
Royal C Stout
Wally Stuart
Frank Vollmer
Josephine Williams
Haidee Wright
Gloria Holden
Penelope Hubbard
Marjorie Wood

0 of these 20 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 20 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 Burton
Producer
Jed Harris

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 Royal Family at all.
  • No show page for The Royal Family. 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.

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