Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1955

The run closed November 17, 1956

Opened

March 24, 1955

Closed

November 17, 1956

Performances

694

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Morosco Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 26th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 7 more that season

1974	Anta Playhouse Revival · Michael Kahn	160 perf.
1990	Eugene Oneill Theatre Revival · Howard Davies	149 perf.
2003	Music Box Theatre Revival · Anthony Page	145 perf.
2008	Broadhurst Theatre Revival · Debbie Allen	125 perf.
2009	Novello Theatre Original
2013	Richard Rodgers Theatre Revival · Rob Ashford	84 perf.
2017	Apollo Theatre Original

Who was in it28 named

Barbara Bel Geddes
Mildred Dunnock
Ben Gazzara
R G Armstrong
Janice Dunn
Seth Edwards
Pauline Hahn
Darryl Richard
Eva Vaughn Smith
Fred Stewart
Sonny Terry
Musa Williams
Thomas Gomez
Majorie Steele
Mary Bell
Claiborne Foster
Jack Lord
Alex Nicol
Jimmy Bayer
Nancy Clark
Michele Mordana
Nicholas Paul

6 of these 28 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 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

Elia Kazan

Producer

The Playwrights' Company (Maxwell Anderson; Robert Anderson; Elmer Rice; Robert E. Sherwood; Roger L. Stevens; John F. Wharton)

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 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.