The run closed July 18, 1976
- Opened
- December 30, 1975
- Closed
- July 18, 1976
- Performances
- 233
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Helen Hayes Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 97th 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. |
| 1951 | City Center Revival · Richard Whorf | 15 perf. |
| 2009 | Samuel J Friedman Theatre Revival · Doug Hughes | 77 perf. |
Who was in it22 named
George Grizzard
Rosemary Harris
Eva le Gallienne
Joseph Maher
Forrest Buckman
James C Burge
Mark Fleischman
Mary Layne
Miller Lide
Sherman Lloyd
Eleanor Phelps
Richard Council
Ellen Fiske
Margot Stevenson
John C Vennema
Richard Woods
6 of these 22 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 16 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
- Ellis Rabb
- Producer
- Barry M. Brown
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.