Theatre Register

The Taming of the Shrew, 1951

Shows · City Center, 1951

Revival BroadwayCity Center15 performances

The run closed May 6, 1951

Opened
April 25, 1951
Closed
May 6, 1951
Performances
15
Previews
Theatre
City Center

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 508th 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.
1940 Alvin Theatre Revival · Harry Wagstaff Gribble 8 perf.
1957 Phoenix Theatre Revival · Norman Lloyd 23 perf.

Who was in it24 named

Dion Allen
Edmund Cambridge
Ralph Clanton
Frank Corsaro
Thayer David
Joseph Dooley
Susan Douglas
Reynolds Evans
Larry Gates
John Glennon
Larry Hageman
Dooley Horton Hill
Cavada Humphrey
David Lewis
Nancy Marchand
Robert Pastene
Robert Quarry
Donald Somers
John Straub
Theodore Tenley
Frederic Warriner

3 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 21 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.

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 director named.
  • 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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