The run closed September 25, 1943
- Opened
- November 18, 1942
- Closed
- September 25, 1943
- Performances
- 359
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 87th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Skin of Our Teeth 3 more that season
| 1955 | Anta Playhouse Revival · Alan Schneider | 22 perf. |
| 1975 | Mark Hellinger Theatre Revival · José Quintero | 7 perf. |
| 2022 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Lileana Blain-Cruz | 35 perf. |
Who was in it34 named
Tallulah Bankhead
Florence Eldridge
Fredric March
Remo Bufano
Carroll Clark
Stephan Cole
Ralph Cullinan
Viola Dean
Aubrey Fassett
Edith Faversham
Seumas Flynn
Arthur Griffin
Frances Heflin
Ralph Kellard
Emily Lorraine
E G Marshall
Eulabelle Moore
Eva Mudge Nelson
Andrew Ratousheff
Florence Reed
Patricia Riordan
Elizabeth Scott
Joseph Smiley
Earl Sydnor
Dickie van Patten
Stanley Weede
Viola Frayne
Larry Hugo
Conrad Nagel
5 of these 34 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 29 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
- Elia Kazan
- Producer
- Michael Myerberg
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 Skin of Our Teeth at all.
- No show page for The Skin of Our Teeth. 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.