Theatre Register

The Visit, 1958

Shows · The Visit · Lunt Fontanne Theatre, 1958

We hold no picture of this staging. This one is filed against The Visit and could document any of its runs. None
Original BroadwayLunt Fontanne Theatre189 performances

The run closed November 29, 1958

Opened
May 5, 1958
Closed
November 29, 1958
Performances
189
Previews
Theatre
Lunt Fontanne Theatre

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 144th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Visit 4 more that season

1973 Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival · Harold Prince 32 perf.
1992 Criterion Center Stage Right Revival · Edwin Sherin 45 perf.
2011 Ambassador Theatre Revival · Carl Andress 1 perf.
2015 Revival Revival · John Doyle 39 perf.

Who was in it26 named

Lynn Fontanne
Alfred Lunt
Marla Adams
Frieda Altman
David Clarke
Robert Donley
Harrison Dowd
Alfred Hoffman
John Kane
Gertrude Kinnell
Joseph Leberman
James Macaaron
Lois Mckim
Kent Montroy
Edward Moor
Daphne Newton
Eric Porter
Milton Selzer
Keneth Thornett
William Thourlby
Ken Walken
Sarah Cunningham

4 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 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
Peter Brook
Producer
The Producers Theatre

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 Visit at all.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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