The Biggest Thief in Town, 1949

The run closed April 9, 1949

Opened

March 30, 1949

Closed

April 9, 1949

Performances

13

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Brooks Atkinson Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and carry a performance count, this is the 588th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it12 named

Walter Abel
Charity Grace
William J Kelly
Alexander Lockwood
Ben Metz
Lois Nettleton
Robert Readick
Fay Roope
Brent Sargent
Rhys Williams

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

Herman Shumlin

Producer

Lee Sabinson

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