A Touch of the Poet, 1958

The run closed June 13, 1959

Opened

October 2, 1958

Closed

June 13, 1959

Performances

284

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Helen Hayes Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 103rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of A Touch of the Poet 3 more that season

1967	Anta Playhouse Revival · Jack Sydow	5 perf.
1977	Helen Hayes Theatre Revival · José Quintero	141 perf.
2005	Studio 54 Revival · Doug Hughes	50 perf.

Who was in it13 named

Betty Field
Helen Hayes
Eric Portman
Curt Conway
Farrell Pelly
Kim Stanley
Luis van Rooten
Cloris Leachman
Dermot Mcnamara
Gerald S O Loughlin

3 of these 13 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

Harold Clurman

Producer

The Producers Theatre

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.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for A Touch of the Poet at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.