King Richard III, 1979

The run closed July 15, 1979

Opened

June 14, 1979

Closed

July 15, 1979

Performances

31

Previews

28

Theatre

James Earl Jones Theatre

Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and carry a performance count, this is the 326th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of King Richard III 16 more that season

1821	African Grove Revival
1825	Park Theatre Revival
1904	Princess Theatre Revival
1905	New Amsterdam Theatre Revival
1906	New Amsterdam Theatre Revival
1907	New Amsterdam Theatre Revival
1908	Bijou Theatre Revival	8 perf.
1909	New Amsterdam Theatre Revival
1911	Dalys Theatre Revival
1915	44th Street Theatre Revival
1917	44th Street Theatre Revival
1918	44th Street Theatre Revival
1920	Plymouth Theatre Revival	27 perf.
1930	Shubert Theatre Revival
1943	Forrest Theatre Revival · George Coulouris	11 perf.
1949	Booth Theatre Revival · Richard Barr	23 perf.

Who was in it24 named

Penelope Allen
Richard Bright
Dominic Chianese
Judson Earney
Keith Gordon
Paul Guilfoyle
Richard Jamieson
Frederic Kimball
John Mahon
Dan Monahan
Bill Moor
Frederick C Neumann
Harriet Rogers
Jaime Sanchez
Glenn Scarpelli
Linda Selman
Barry Snider
Max Wright
Daniel Zippi

5 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 19 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

David Wheeler

Producer

The Shubert Organization

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