Heartbreak House, 1959

The run closed January 23, 1960

Opened

October 18, 1959

Closed

January 23, 1960

Performances

112

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Nederlander Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 203rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Heartbreak House 4 more that season

1920	Garrick Theatre Original · Dudley Digges	125 perf.
1938	Mercury Theatre Revival	48 perf.
1983	Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Anthony Page	65 perf.
2006	American Airlines Theatre Revival · Robin Lefèvre	79 perf.

Who was in it12 named

Pamela Brown
Diane Cilento
Dennis Price
Alan Webb
Diana Wynyard
Sorrell Booke
Jane Rose
Hugh Franklin
Barbara Lord

3 of these 12 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 9 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

Harold Clurman

Producer

Maurice Evans

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 Heartbreak House at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.