Cafe Crown, 1942

The run closed May 23, 1942

Opened

January 23, 1942

Closed

May 23, 1942

Performances

141

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Unknown

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and carry a performance count, this is the 184th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Cafe Crown 1 more that season

Who was in it23 named

Abraham J. Spelvin
Margaret Waller
Sam Wanamaker
Alfred White
Mervin Williams

23 of these 23 names have a person record behind them and link to one. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Around this production

• Cafe Crown would be the first of three flop musicals which ended Hague’s Broadway career. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 200
• He quickly rebounded two months later, in the musical Cafe Crown (starring—yet again—Sam Levene). This lasted two days, giving Alda ten performances in two different Broadway shows in two months. Broadway Yearbook 2001 2002 A Relevant and Irreverent Steven Suskin Kindle 2003 , p. 132
• Broadway credits include Plain and Fancy, followed by Cafe Crown, Slapstick Tragedy, Show Me Where the Good Times Are, and Plaza Suite. Theatre World 2000 01 Season V 57 Willis, p. 263

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

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