Arsenic and Old Lace, 1941

The run closed June 17, 1944

Opened

January 10, 1941

Closed

June 17, 1944

Performances

1,444

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Fulton Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and carry a performance count, this is the 6th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Arsenic and Old Lace 1 more that season

1986

46th Street Theatre Revival · Brian Murray

221 perf.

Who was in it31 named

Jean Adair
John Alexander
Wyrley Birch
Helen Brooks
Henry Herbert
Josephine Hull
Allyn Joslyn
Boris Karloff
William Parke
John Quigg
Anthony Ross
Edgar Stehli
Victor Sutherland
Doan Borup
Patricia Collinge
Ashley Cooper
Laura Hope Crews
Minnie Dupree
Harry Gribbon
Clinton Sundberg
Eric von Stroheim
Effie Shannon
Wallace Acton
Richard Bishop
Ross Chetwynd
Blaine Cordner
Gilbert Douglas
Herbert Ranson
Joseph Sweeney

2 of these 31 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 29 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

Bretaigne Windust

Producer

Howard Lindsay

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 Arsenic and Old Lace at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.