Pygmalion, 1987

The run closed August 2, 1987

Opened

April 26, 1987

Closed

August 2, 1987

Performances

113

Previews

15

Theatre

Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

Of the 464 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and carry a performance count, this is the 137th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Pygmalion 6 more that season

1869	Waverley Theatre Original	10 perf.
1914	Park Theatre Revival	72 perf.
1926	Guild Theatre Revival · Dudley Digges	143 perf.
1938	Maxine Elliotts Theatre Revival	4 perf.
1945	Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival · Cedric Hardwicke	179 perf.
2007	American Airlines Theatre Revival · David Grindley	69 perf.

Who was in it17 named

Dora Bryan
Lionel Jeffries
John Mills
Peter O Toole
Amanda Plummer
Joyce Redman
Osmond Bullock
Mary Peach
Kirstie Pooley
Ivar Brogger
Selena Carey Jones
Edward Conery
Robertson Dean
Wendy Makkena
Lucy Martin
Richard Neilson
Angela Thornton

0 of these 17 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 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

Val May

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