Theatre Register

Twelfth Night, 1940

Shows · St James Theatre, 1940

Revival BroadwaySt James Theatre129 performances

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.

Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.