The run closed March 8, 1941
- Opened
- November 19, 1940
- Closed
- March 8, 1941
- Performances
- 129
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- St James Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 193rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Twelfth Night 19 more that season
| 1804 | Park Theatre Original | |
| 1869 | Dalys Fifth Avenue Theatre Revival | |
| 1900 | Fifth Avenue Theatre Revival | |
| 1905 | Knickerbocker Theatre Revival | 2 perf. |
| 1907 | Lyric Theatre Revival | |
| 1910 | New Theatre Revival | |
| 1911 | Broadway Theatre Revival | |
| 1912 | Manhattan Opera House Revival · Lee Shubert | |
| 1913 | Manhattan Opera House Revival | |
| 1914 | Hudson Theatre Revival | |
| 1919 | Shubert Theatre Revival | |
| 1926 | Civic Repertory Theatre Revival · Eva Le Gallienne | 26 perf. |
| 1930 | Shubert Theatre Revival · Fritz Leiber | |
| 1941 | Little Theatre Revival · George Shdanoff | 15 perf. |
| 1949 | Empire Theatre Revival · Valentine Windt | 48 perf. |
| 1958 | Broadway Theatre Revival · Michael Benthall | 14 perf. |
| 1972 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Ellis Rabb | 44 perf. |
| 1998 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Nicholas Hytner | 53 perf. |
| 2013 | Belasco Theatre Revival · Tim Carroll | 82 perf. |
Who was in it23 named
Helen Hayes
Donald Burr
Mark Smith
Sophie Stewart
June Walker
Wallace Acton
Wesley Addy
June Brehm
Donald Buka
Osbert Chevers
Alex Courtnay
Larry Gates
Philip Huston
Ellis Irving
Raymond Johnson
Max Leavitt
Irving Morrow
Anthony Ross
Lauren Gilbert
Guy Spaull
3 of these 23 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 20 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
- Margaret Webster
- Producer
- The Theatre Guild (Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner: Administrative Directors)
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 Twelfth Night at all.
- No show page for Twelfth Night. 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.