Theatre Register

The Taming of the Shrew, 1940

Shows · Alvin Theatre, 1940

Revival BroadwayNeil Simon Theatre 8 performances

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.

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