Theatre Register

They Knew What They Wanted, 1939

Shows · Empire Theatre, 1939

Revival BroadwayEmpire Theatre24 performances

The run closed October 21, 1939

Opened
October 2, 1939
Closed
October 21, 1939
Performances
24
Previews
Theatre
Empire Theatre

Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 656th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

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

1924 Garrick Theatre Original · Philip Moeller 414 perf.
1924 Garrick Theatre Transfer
1949 Music Box Theatre Revival · Robert Perry 61 perf.
1976 Playhouse Theatre Revival · Stephen Porter 23 perf.

Who was in it23 named

Dolores Baladoni
Miriam Battista
David Beale
Marvis Butler
Robert Carr
Peter Goo Chong
Joseph Conway
Joseph Monneret de Villard
Norma Green
Philip Huston
Charles Kennedy
Nanon Kiam
Charles E Maxwell
Edward Mayor
Douglass Montgomery
Shirley Osborne
Everett Ripley
Elena Salvatore
Vito Scotti
Giuseppe Sterni
Marylin Wahl
June Walker

1 of these 23 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
Robert Ross
Producer
Leonard Sillman

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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