The Live Wire, 1950

The run closed September 9, 1950

Opened

August 17, 1950

Closed

September 9, 1950

Performances

28

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Playhouse Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 416th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it16 named

Heywood Hale Broun
Peggy Cass
John Drew Colt
Elspeth Eric
Elliott Reid
Chester Stratton
Joseph G Sullivan
Ned Wertimer
Rex Williams
George Hall

6 of these 16 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 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

Producer

Michael Todd

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 Live Wire at all.
• No director named.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.