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John Brown's Body, 1953

Shows · John Brown's Body · New Century Theatre, 1953

Original BroadwayNew Century Theatre 65 performances

The run closed April 11, 1953

Opened
February 14, 1953
Closed
April 11, 1953
Performances
65
Previews
Unknown

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 276th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it26 named

Judith Anderson
Raymond Massey
Tyrone Power
Joe Baker
Roy D Berk
Paul Bloom
Keith Carver
Stephen Considine
Jack B Dailey
Barbara Ford
Gillian Grey
Homer W Hall
Lester D Helsdon
William Longmire
Donna Mcdaniel
John Mcmahon
Smith Russell Jr
Alexander Serbaroli
Lynda Stevens
Robert Vaughn
Gordon B Wood
Don Burke
Bob Jensen
Jack Vander Laan

2 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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
Paul Gregory

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 John Brown's Body, 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 1 recordings of John Brown's Body document this run, if any.
  • No director named.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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