A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1951

The run closed December 8, 1951

Opened

April 19, 1951

Closed

December 8, 1951

Performances

267

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Neil Simon Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 114th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it50 named

Shirley Booth1898–1992

J

Johnny Johnston1915–1996

Marcia Van Dyke1922–2002

N

Nomi Mitty

N

Nathaniel Frey1918–1970

H

Harland Dixon1885–1969

L

Lou Wills Jr.

R

Ruth Amos

E

Elaine Barrow

Marta Becket

J

Jordan Bentley

V

Val Buttignol

J

Joe Calvan

C

Claudia Campbell

A

Art Carroll

W

William Carson

T

Terry Castagna

D

Donn Driver

John Connoughton
Jane Copeland
Donald Duerr
Celine Flanagan
Johnny Ford
Alan Gilbert
Jeanne Grant
Dody Heath
Joan Kibrig
Albert Linville
Buzzie Martin
Howard Martin
James Mccracken
Iona Mckenzie
Patti Milligan
David Newman
Janet Parker
Billy Parsons
Beverly Purvin
Frank Seabolt
Mary Statz
Marc West
Bruno Wick
Eleanor Williams
Roland Wood
Doris Wright
Delbert Anderson
Dorothy Hill
Dick Price
Isabel Price
Feodore Tedick
Beverly Jane Welch

19 of these 50 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 31 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

George Abbott

Choreographer

Herbert Ross, Herbert

Producer

George Abbott & Robert Fryer

Orchestrations

by Joe Glover, Russell Bennett. (Additional orchestrations by Ted Royal, possibly others.)

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.

Recordings 2 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

• One of Schwartz’s richest scores and clearly his finest book musical, based on the popular novel. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 173

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

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.
• Which of the 2 recordings of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.