Blue Beard, 1872

The run closed May 5, 1873

Opened

August 12, 1872

Closed

May 5, 1873

Performances

24

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Wallacks Theatre

Of the 77 productions we hold that opened in the 1870s and carry a performance count, this is the 30th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Blue Beard 2 more that season

1860	Niblos Garden Original	16 perf.
1871	Wallacks Theatre Original	30 perf.

Who was in it8 named

Harry Beckett
Jonh Brier
Camille Dubois
Amy Sheridan
Lydia Thompson
Eliza Weathersby
Carlotta Zerbini

1 of these 8 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 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

Producer

Lydia Thompson's Burlesque Troupe

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 Blue Beard at all.
• No director named.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.