Lost in the Stars, 1949

The run closed May 11, 1958

Opened

October 30, 1949

Closed

May 11, 1958

Performances

281

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Music Box Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and carry a performance count, this is the 111th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Lost in the Stars 1 more that season

1972

Imperial Theatre Revival · Gene Frankel

39 perf.

Who was in it51 named

Lacoste Brown
Robert Byrn
Russell George
William Greaves
Charles Grunwell
Mabel Hart
Alma Hubbard
Gertrude Jeanette
Mark Kramer
Moses la Mar
Elen Longone
Paul Mario
William Marshall
Robert Mcferrin
June Mcmechen
John Morley
Van Prince
Biruta Ramoska
Judson Rees
Elayne Richards
Jerome Shaw
William C Smith
Guy Spaull
Christine Spencer
John W Stanley
Constance Stokes
Joseph Theard
Lucretia West
Leon Bibb
John Garth Iii
Norman Hawley
Van Hawley
Anne Humphrey
Alma Lillie
George Rees
Clyde Turner

15 of these 51 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 36 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

Rouben Mamoulian

Choreographer

La Verne French

Producer

Playwrights’ Company

Orchestrations

Ku

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.

Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination

Best Musical

Nominated

Recordings 2 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Lost in the Stars, 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

• Weill’s final work was this serious piece dealing with racial prejudice in South Africa. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 339

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 2 recordings of Lost in the Stars document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.