The Skin of Our Teeth, 1955

The run closed September 3, 1955

Opened

August 17, 1955

Closed

September 3, 1955

Performances

22

Previews

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Theatre

Anta Playhouse

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 456th 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

Who was in it27 named

George Abbott1887–1995

Mary Martin1913–1990

V

Vinie Burrows—

Helen Hayes
Florence Reed
Heller Halliday
Don Murray
Jonathan Anderson
Charles Boaz
Emily Cobb
Jack Delmonte
John Dorman
David Elliott
Alice Fay
Earl George
Tom Geroghty
Fred Kareman
Eileen Lear
Lily Lodge
Paul Morrison
Richard O Neil
Maud Scheerer
Frank Silvera
Ann Stanwell
Frances Sternhagen
Patricia Taffe
Norma Veney

3 of these 27 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

Director

Alan Schneider

Producer

Robert Whitehead

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.