Theatre Register

The Teahouse of the August Moon, 1953

Shows · Martin Beck Theatre, 1953

Original BroadwayAl Hirschfeld Theatre 1,027 performances

The run closed March 24, 1956

Opened
October 15, 1953
Closed
March 24, 1956
Performances
1,027
Previews
Theatre
Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 8th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it41 named

John Forsythe
Larry Gates
Mariko Niki
Richard Akagi
Joyce Chen
Norman Chi
Kikuo Hiromura
Kame Ishikawa
Harry Jackson
Laurence Kim
Naoe Kondo
Chuck Morgan
Shizu Moriya
Frank Ogawa
Mary Ann Reeve
Saki
Kuraji Seida
Moy Moy Thom
Vivian Thom
Haim Winant
Kenneth Wong
Paul Davis
Terrance Kilburn
Eli Wallach
Jonathan Harris
Peter Hobbs
Kenneth Chin
Rodolfo Cornejo
Rita Gonzales
Gerald Ito
Richard Loo
Barbara Luna
Eileen Nakamura

8 of these 41 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 33 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
Robert Lewis
Producer
Maurice Evans

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 Teahouse of the August Moon at all.
  • No show page for The Teahouse of the August Moon. 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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