Theatre Register

Volpone, 1947

Shows · New Century Theatre, 1947

Revival BroadwayNew Century Theatre 3 performances

The run closed March 6, 1947

Opened
February 24, 1947
Closed
March 6, 1947
Performances
3
Previews
Theatre
New Century Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 819th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Volpone 4 more that season

1928 Guild Theatre Original · Philip Moeller 46 perf.
1930 Liberty Theatre Revival · Philip Moeller 8 perf.
1948 City Center Revival 14 perf.
1957 Winter Garden Theatre Revival · Jean-Louis Barrault 3 perf.

Who was in it13 named

Robert Algar
Kempster Barnes
Richard Blythe
George Bradford
David Dodimead
Alexander Gauge
Frederick Horrey
Rosalind Iden
Eric Maxon
Josef Shear
Malcolm Watson
Geoffrey Wilkinson
John Wynyard

0 of these 13 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 13 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
Donald Wolfit
Producer
Hall Shelton

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 Volpone at all.
  • No show page for Volpone. 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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