Golden Boy, 1952

The run closed April 6, 1952

Opened

March 12, 1952

Closed

April 6, 1952

Performances

55

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Anta Playhouse

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 302nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Golden Boy 3 more that season

1937	Belasco Theatre Original · Harold Clurman	250 perf.
1964	Majestic Theatre Revival · Arthur Penn	568 perf.
2012	Belasco Theatre Revival · Bartlett Sher	53 perf.

Who was in it20 named

Joe Bernard
Rudy Bond
Norman Brooks
Lee J Cobb
Bert Conway
John Garfield
Bette Grayson
Martin Greene
Sidney Kay
Tony Kraber
Michael Lewin
Peggy Meredith
Arthur O Connell
Gerald S O Loughlin
Joseph Wiseman
Joe de Santis

4 of these 20 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 16 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

ANTA (Robert Whitehead, Managing Director)

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 2 held for the work

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

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 2 recordings of Golden Boy document this run, if any.
• No director named.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.