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The Cradle Will Rock, 1947

Shows · The Cradle Will Rock · Mansfield Theatre, 1947

The Cradle Will Rock
We hold no picture of this staging. This one is filed against The Cradle Will Rock and could document any of its runs. Federal Theatre Project
Revival BroadwayBrooks Atkinson Theatre 34 performances

The run closed February 7, 1948

Opened
December 26, 1947
Closed
February 7, 1948
Performances
34
Previews
Unknown

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and carry a performance count, this is the 403rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Cradle Will Rock 1 more that season

1938 Windsor Theatre Original · Orson Welles 108 perf.

Who was in it33 named

Lucretia Anderson
Howard Blaine
Taggart Casey
Rex Coston
Chandler Cowles
Stephen West Downer
Brooks Dunbar
John Fleming
Ray Fry
Edmund Hewitt
Gil Houston
Jo Hurt
Dennis King Jr
Marie Leidal
Leslie Litomy
Harold Patrick
Robert Pierson
Michael Pollock
Germaine Poulin
Napoleon Reed
Walter Scheff
Hazel Shermet
David Thomas
Gwen Ward

9 of these 33 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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
Howard Da Silva
Producer
Michael Myerberg

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.

Recordings 3 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against The Cradle Will Rock, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

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.
  • Which of the 3 recordings of The Cradle Will Rock document this run, if any.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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