Theatre Register

The Shrike, 1952

Shows · Cort Theatre, 1952

Original BroadwayJames Earl Jones Theatre 161 performances

The run closed May 31, 1952

Opened
January 15, 1952
Closed
May 31, 1952
Performances
161
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 160th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it25 named

Judith Evelyn
Somer Alberg
James Hawthorne Bay
Mary Bell
Isabel Bonner
William Bush
Kendall Clark
Joseph Comadore
Vincent Donahue
Jeanette Dowling
Stephen Elliott
Billy M Greene
Phyllis Hill
Philip Huston
Arthur Jarrett
Will Kuluva
Will Lee
Martin Newman
Tom Reynolds
Leigh Whipper
Mary Fletcher
Simon Oakland
Eugenia Rawls
Mary Jane Shea

1 of these 25 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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

Producer
José Ferrer

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 Shrike at all.
  • No director named.
  • No show page for The Shrike. 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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