Beggars Are Coming to Town, 1945

The run closed November 17, 1945

Opened

October 27, 1945

Closed

November 17, 1945

Performances

25

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Eugene O'Neill Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and carry a performance count, this is the 457th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it18 named

Luther Adler
Adrienne Ames
Julius Bing
Cedric Wallace Trio
Dorothy Comingore
Harry M Cooke
Austin Fairman
Louis Gilbert
Arthur Hunnicutt
Harry Kadison
Alfred Linder
E G Marshall
Joseph Rosso
Harold Young

4 of these 18 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 14 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

Oscar Serlin

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 Beggars Are Coming to Town at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.