The Real Thing, 1984

The run closed May 12, 1985

Opened

January 5, 1984

Closed

May 12, 1985

Performances

566

Previews

16

Theatre

Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

Of the 464 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and carry a performance count, this is the 39th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Real Thing 4 more that season

1911	Maxine Elliotts Theatre Original	60 perf.
1982	Novello Theatre Original
2000	Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival · David Leveaux	136 perf.
2014	American Airlines Theatre Revival · Sam Gold	76 perf.

Who was in it19 named

Jeremy Irons
Christine Baranski
Vyto Ruginis
Kenneth Welsh
Caroline Lagerfelt
Laila Robins
Sara Botsford
Simon Jones
Anthony Fusco
D W Moffett
Campbell Scott
Steven Weber

7 of these 19 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 12 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

Mike Nichols

Producer

Emanuel Azenberg

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