The run closed February 10, 1940
- Opened
- February 5, 1940
- Closed
- February 10, 1940
- Performances
- 8
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 640th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Taming of the Shrew 19 more that season
| 1768 | John Street Theatre Original | |
| 1894 | Dalys Theatre Revival | |
| 1904 | Lyric Theatre Revival | |
| 1905 | Knickerbocker Theatre Revival | |
| 1907 | Lyric Theatre Revival | |
| 1909 | Academy Of Music Revival | |
| 1910 | Academy Of Music Revival | |
| 1911 | Broadway Theatre Revival | |
| 1912 | Manhattan Opera House Revival | |
| 1913 | Manhattan Opera House Revival | |
| 1914 | Hudson Theatre Revival | |
| 1919 | Shubert Theatre Revival | |
| 1924 | Jolsons 59th Street Theatre Revival | |
| 1927 | Garrick Theatre Revival · H. K. Ayliff | 175 perf. |
| 1927 | Garrick Theatre Transfer | |
| 1930 | Shubert Theatre Revival | |
| 1935 | Guild Theatre Revival · Harry Wagstaff Gribble | 129 perf. |
| 1951 | City Center Revival | 15 perf. |
| 1957 | Phoenix Theatre Revival · Norman Lloyd | 23 perf. |
Who was in it31 named
Fay Baker
Harry Be Gar
Charles Bowden
Donald Buka
Gilmore Bush
Francis Compton
Grace Coppin
Alex Courtnay
Sharon Curran
Robert Downing
S Thomas Gomez
Freddie Goodrow
Ray Holgate
Thomas Keenan
William Lemassena
Byron Mcgrath
Grace Mcgrath
Gordon Mills
Cameron Mitchell
Don Morrell
Ralph Nelson
Eddo Porto
Charles Silvers
Norman Stuart
Victor Thorley
Brooks West
5 of these 31 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 26 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
- Harry Wagstaff Gribble
- Producer
- The Theatre Guild
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 Taming of the Shrew at all.
- No show page for The Taming of the Shrew. 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.