The run closed January 21, 1951
- Opened
- January 10, 1951
- Closed
- January 21, 1951
- Performances
- 15
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- City Center
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 508th 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
| 1927 | Selwyn Theatre Original · David Burton | 345 perf. |
| 1975 | Helen Hayes Theatre Revival · Ellis Rabb | 233 perf. |
| 2009 | Samuel J Friedman Theatre Revival · Doug Hughes | 77 perf. |
Who was in it17 named
Olive Blakeney
J Edward Bromberg
Evelyn Ellis
John Emery
Chris Gampel
Peggy Ann Garner
Ruth Hussey
Morris Miller
Bernard Nadell
Theodore Newton
Marjorie Redmond
Tom Hughes Sand
Robert Webber
Wendell Whitten
Walt Witcover
2 of these 17 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 15 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
- Richard Whorf
- Producer
- New York City Theatre Company
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.