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.