The run closed March 16, 1946
- Opened
- January 9, 1946
- Closed
- March 16, 1946
- Performances
- 77
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Booth Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 272nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it21 named
Donald Burr
Rand Elliot
Leonard Elliott
Alex Fisher
Mary Godwin
Ruth Harrison
John Heath
Albert Henderson
Earle R Macveigh
Le Roi Operti
Frederic Persson
Lewis Pierce
Ann Thomas
Lester Towne
Eleanore Whitney
Jerome Collamore
5 of these 21 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 16 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
- John Kennedy
- Producer
- Michael Todd
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 Would-Be Gentleman at all.
- No show page for The Would-Be Gentleman. 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.