The Importance of Being Earnest, 1977

The run closed August 28, 1977

Opened

June 16, 1977

Closed

August 28, 1977

Performances

85

Previews

23

Theatre

Circle in the Square Theatre

Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and carry a performance count, this is the 189th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Importance of Being Earnest 9 more that season

1895	Empire Theatre Original	40 perf.
1902	Empire Theatre Revival	49 perf.
1921	Bramhall Playhouse Revival	44 perf.
1926	Comedy Theatre Revival · Dudley Digges	70 perf.
1947	Royale Theatre Revival	81 perf.
1993	Aldwych Theatre Original
2008	Vaudeville Theatre Original
2011	American Airlines Theatre Revival · Brian Bedford	189 perf.
2015	Vaudeville Theatre Original

Who was in it9 named

Patricia Conolly
John Glover
Kathleen Widdoes
Elizabeth Wilson
G Wood
Munson Hicks
Thomas Ruisinger

2 of these 9 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 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

Stephen Porter

Producer

Circle in the Square (Theodore Mann: Artistic Director; Paul Libin: Managing Director)

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