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The House of Bernarda Alba, 1951

Shows · The House of Bernarda Alba · Anta Playhouse, 1951

Original BroadwayAnta Playhouse 17 performances

The run closed January 20, 1951

Opened
January 7, 1951
Closed
January 20, 1951
Performances
17
Previews
Unknown

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 484th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it13 named

Zelda Benjamin
Marian Coppa
Helen Craig
Sarah Cunningham
Tamara Daykarhanova
Ruth Ford
Florence Luriea
Betty Morrow
Katina Paxinou
Jada Rowland
Ruth Saville
Kim Stanley
Mary Welch

0 of these 13 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 13 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
Robert Breen
Producer
Stewart Chaney

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

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