The Cocktail Party, 1950

The run closed January 13, 1951

Opened

January 21, 1950

Closed

January 13, 1951

Performances

409

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Henry Millers Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 72nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Cocktail Party 1 more that season

1968

Lyceum Theatre Revival · Philip Minor

44 perf.

Who was in it11 named

Robert Flemyng
Alec Guinness
Grey Blake
Ernest Clark
Irene Worth
Henry Daniell
Hugh Williams
Faith Brook
Robin Craven
Carol Goodner

1 of these 11 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

E. Martin Browne

Producer

Sherek Players, 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 The Cocktail Party at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.