The Grand Duchess, 1870

The run closed November 25, 1870

Opened

November 14, 1870

Closed

November 25, 1870

Performances

11

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Woods Museum And Metropolitan

Of the 77 productions we hold that opened in the 1870s and carry a performance count, this is the 60th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Grand Duchess 2 more that season

1872	Union Square Theatre Revival	12 perf.
1899	American Theatre Revival	8 perf.

Who was in it4 named

W S Baker
Emma Howson
Harry Stewart
Minnie Walton

0 of these 4 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 4 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

Fred Lyster

Producer

George Wood

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