Tea and Sympathy, 1953

The run closed June 18, 1955

Opened

September 30, 1953

Closed

June 18, 1955

Performances

712

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 24th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it13 named

Deborah Kerr
John Kerr
Richard Franchot
Florida Friebus
John Mcgovern
Richard Midgley
Arthur Steuer
Alan Sues
Dick York
Regis Caddic
Joan Fontaine

2 of these 13 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 11 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

Elia Kazan

Producer

The Playwrights' Company (Maxwell Anderson; Robert Anderson; Elmer Rice; Robert E. Sherwood; Roger L. Stevens; John F. Wharton)

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