The School for Scandal, 1963

The run closed March 16, 1963

Opened

January 24, 1963

Closed

March 16, 1963

Performances

60

Previews

2

Theatre

Majestic Theatre

Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 255th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The School for Scandal 10 more that season

Who was in it17 named

Ralph Richardson
Richard Easton
Gwen Ffrangcon Davies
Meriel Forbes
Malcolm Keen
Geraldine Mcewan
Peter Barkworth
Betty Bowden
Dillon Evans
Martin Friend
Howard Goorney
Pinkie Johnstone
Jonathan Newth
Charles Lloyd Pack
Donald Pickering

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

John Gielgud

Producer

Alexander H. Cohen

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 School for Scandal at all.
• No show page for The School for Scandal. 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.