Romeo and Juliet, 1956

The run closed January 12, 1957

Opened

October 24, 1956

Closed

January 12, 1957

Performances

29

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Winter Garden Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 406th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Romeo and Juliet 26 more that season

1754	New Theatre Original
1869	Booths Theatre Revival
1899	Empire Theatre Revival
1904	Knickerbocker Theatre Revival
1905	Knickerbocker Theatre Revival
1907	Lyric Theatre Revival
1909	New Amsterdam Theatre Revival
1910	Academy Of Music Revival
1911	Dalys Theatre Revival
1912	Manhattan Opera House Revival
1913	Manhattan Opera House Revival
1915	44th Street Theatre Revival
1918	44th Street Theatre Revival
1922	48th Street Theatre Revival
1923	Henry Millers Theatre Revival · Frank Reicher	157 perf.
1930	Civic Repertory Theatre Revival · Eva Le Gallienne	16 perf.
1934	Martin Beck Theatre Revival · Guthrie McClintic	77 perf.
1935	Martin Beck Theatre Revival · Martha Graham	15 perf.
1940	51st Street Theatre Revival · Robert Ross	36 perf.
1951	Broadhurst Theatre Revival · Peter Glenville	49 perf.
1962	City Center Revival · Franco Zeffirelli
1977	Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Theodore Mann	77 perf.
1986	Belasco Theatre Revival · Estelle Parsons
2004	Playhouse Theatre Original
2013	Richard Rodgers Theatre Revival · David Leveaux	93 perf.
2024	Tom Stoppard Theatre Original

Who was in it34 named

Ronald Allen
Claire Bloom
Peter Bowles
Jeremy Brett
Graeme Campbell
Wynne Clark
Juliet Cooke
Margaret Courtenay
Charles Gray
Jack Gwillim
Ernest Hare
Edward Harvey
Denis Holmes
Sally Home
Donald Homer
Marion Hood
Fraser Kerr
Tom Kneebone
Aubrey Morris
Daniel Moynihan
Peter Needham
John Neville
Derek New
Timothy Parkes
Alan Penn
Bryan Pringle
Paul Rogers
Job Stewart
Keith Taylor
James Villiers
Charles West
Jennifer Wilson
John Woodvine
Richard Wordsworth

0 of these 34 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 34 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

Robert Helpmann

Producer

Old Vic Trust, Ltd.

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