The Front Page, 1928

The run dates incomplete

Opened

August 14, 1928

Closed

Unknown

Performances

276

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Times Square Theatre

Of the 2,149 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and carry a performance count, this is the 125th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

No closing date. At this distance that most likely means nobody wrote down when it ended, rather than that the run went on.

Other stagings of The Front Page 4 more that season

1946	Royale Theatre Revival	79 perf.
1969	Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival · Harold J. Kennedy	64 perf.
1986	Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Jerry Zaks	57 perf.
2016	Broadhurst Theatre Revival · Jack O'Brien	117 perf.

Who was in it24 named

Walter Baldwin
George Barbier
Violet Barney
Frank Conlan
Claude Cooper
Jessie Crommette
Matthew Crowley
Larry Doyle
George Fleming
William Foran
Frances Fuller
George Leach
Osgood Perkins
Willard Robertson
Joseph Spurin Calleia
Dorothy Stickney
Lee Tracy
Carrie Weller
Gene West
Jay Wilson
Vincent York
Tammany Young

2 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 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

George S. Kaufman

Producer

Jed Harris

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 Front Page at all.
• When it closed.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.