The Big Knife, 1949

The run closed May 28, 1949

Opened

February 24, 1949

Closed

May 28, 1949

Performances

109

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Nederlander Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and carry a performance count, this is the 223rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Big Knife 1 more that season

2013

American Airlines Theatre Revival · Doug Hughes

56 perf.

Who was in it12 named

John Garfield
J Edward Bromberg
Nancy Kelly
Paul Mcgrath
John Mckee
Theodore Newton
Mary Patton
Leona Powers
William Terry
Frank Wilson

2 of these 12 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 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

Lee Strasberg

Producer

Dwight Deere Wiman

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