Billy Budd, 1951

The run closed May 12, 1951

Opened

February 10, 1951

Closed

May 12, 1951

Performances

105

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 212th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it26 named

Torin Thatcher
Martin Brandt
Charles Carshon
James Daly
Robert Dudley
Norman Ettlinger
George Fells
Bill Froelich
Henry Garrard
Preston Hanson
Charles Hudson
Bernard Kates
David Long
Lee Marvin
Robert Mcqueeney
Jeff Morrow
Charles Nolte
Kenneth Paine
Judson Pratt
Winston Ross
Guy Spaull
Bertram Tanswell
Leonard Yorr

3 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 23 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

Norris Houghton

Producer

Chandler Cowles

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