The Play's the Thing, 1928

The run dates incomplete

Opened

April 9, 1928

Closed

Unknown

Performances

24

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Empire Theatre

Of the 2,149 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and carry a performance count, this is the 1,369th 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 Play's the Thing 3 more that season

1948	Booth Theatre Revival	244 perf.
1973	Bijou Theatre Revival · Gene Feist	23 perf.
1995	Criterion Center Stage Right Revival · Gloria Muzio	45 perf.

Who was in it8 named

Claude Allister
Herbert Druce
Kirby Hawkes
Stephen Kendal
Harry Mestayer
Gavin Muir
Ralph Nairn
Selena Royle

0 of these 8 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 8 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

Holbrook Blinn

Producer

Gilbert Miller

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 Play's the Thing at all.
• When it closed.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.