Aida, 1944

The run closed May 7, 1944

Opened

April 28, 1944

Closed

May 7, 1944

Performances

2

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Center Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and carry a performance count, this is the 842nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Aida 5 more that season

1927	Gallo Opera House Original	1 perf.
1946	Center Theatre Revival · Mario Valle	2 perf.
1947	Center Theatre Revival · Mario Valle	3 perf.
1948	Center Theatre Revival
2000	Palace Theatre Revival · Robert Falls	1,852 perf.

Who was in it9 named

Arthur Anderson
Frieda Bleicher
Francesco Curci
Elda Ercole
Harold Kravitt
Mobley Lushanya
Sydney Rayner
Mostyn Thomas

1 of these 9 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 8 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

G. S. Eyssell

Producer

Fortune Gallo

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 7 held for the work

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

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 7 recordings of Aida document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.