Cranks, 1956

The run closed December 29, 1956

Opened

November 26, 1956

Closed

December 29, 1956

Performances

40

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Bijou Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 345th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it4 named

4 of these 4 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.

Creative team

Director

John Cranko, John

Producer

Richard Charlton and John Krimsky

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.

Recordings 1 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Cranks, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

• Despite the musical’s attempts for originality and freshness and favorable comments by Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times, the critics were generally unimpressed and so The Nervous Set was gone in less than three weeks; like so many intimate offerings of the era (such as Cranks and The Next President), it probably w… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 790
• like so many intimate offerings of the era (such as Cranks and The Next President), it probably would have fared better in an intimate Off-Broadway venue rather than a traditional Broadway playhouse. The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 795

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.
• Which of the 1 recordings of Cranks document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.