Theatre Register

Threepenny Opera, 1933

Shows · Empire Theatre, 1933

Original BroadwayEmpire Theatre12 performances

The run closed April 22, 1933

Opened
April 13, 1933
Closed
April 22, 1933
Performances
12
Previews
Theatre
Empire Theatre

Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 935th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Threepenny Opera 2 more that season

1966 Billy Rose Theatre Revival · Michael Meschke 13 perf.
1976 Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Richard Foreman 307 perf.

Who was in it41 named

Gus Alexander
Corine Anderson
Lillian Ardell
Harry Bellaver
Richard Bengali
Evelyn Beresford
Anthony Blair
Arthur Brady
Lotta Burnell
Jack Carstairs
John Connolly
Jean de Koven
Marjorie Dille
H L Donsu
Steffi Duna
Louis Halprin
Gerald Hamer
James Clarence Harvey
Mary Heberden
George Heller
Harry Hornick
Josephine Huston
Harold Imber
Francis Kennelly
Hilda Kosta
Larry Larkin
Ellen Love
Geraldine Lunby
Tom Morgan
Thomas Murphy
Lillian Okun
Eugene Reed
Herbert Rudley
Ruth Thomas
Clyde Turner
Morton Ulman
Rex Weber
Barbara Winchester

3 of these 41 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 38 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
Francesco Von Mendelssohn
Producer
John Krimsky

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 Threepenny Opera at all.
  • No show page for Threepenny Opera. 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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