The run closed April 26, 1952
- Opened
- February 13, 1952
- Closed
- April 26, 1952
- Performances
- 86
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- New Century Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 242nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it11 named
Lilli Palmer
Stuart Burge
Hurd Hatfield
Joan Haythorne
John Merivale
Claudia Morgan
Eileen Peel
James Westerfield
John Williams
Don Mchenry
1 of these 11 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 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
- Laurence Olivier
- 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 Venus Observed at all.
- No show page for Venus Observed. 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.