Theatre Register

They Knew What They Wanted, 1924

Shows · Garrick Theatre, 1924

Original BroadwayGarrick Theatre 414 performances

The run closed November 14, 1925

Opened
November 24, 1924
Closed
November 14, 1925
Performances
414
Previews
Theatre
Garrick Theatre

Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 48th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

The theatre record for this run is wrong

This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.

Other stagings of They Knew What They Wanted 4 more that season

1924 Garrick Theatre Transfer
1939 Empire Theatre Revival · Robert Ross 24 perf.
1949 Music Box Theatre Revival · Robert Perry 61 perf.
1976 Playhouse Theatre Revival · Stephen Porter 23 perf.

Who was in it31 named

Allen Atwell
Richard Bennett
Alvah Bessie
Peggy Conway
Robert Cook
Cosette Faustine
Helen Fowble
Dorothy Greene
Edward Hogan
Frances Hyde
Charles Kennedy
Pauline Lord
Peter Marsters
Eleanor Mish
Hardwick Nevin
Catherine Scherman
Thomas Scherman
Arthur Sircom
Charles Tazewell
Audrey Thal
Ernest Thompson
Edward Pawley
Antoineite Bizzoco
Leo Carillo
Angelo de Palma
M Pepine
Jessie Pichen
Edward Rosenfeld
Michael Zito

2 of these 31 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 29 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
Philip Moeller
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 They Knew What They Wanted at all.
  • No show page for They Knew What They Wanted. 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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