The Shrike, 1952

The run closed May 31, 1952

Opened

January 15, 1952

Closed

May 31, 1952

Performances

161

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

James Earl Jones Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 161st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it25 named

Judith Evelyn
Somer Alberg
James Hawthorne Bay
Mary Bell
Isabel Bonner
William Bush
Kendall Clark
Joseph Comadore
Vincent Donahue
Jeanette Dowling
Stephen Elliott
Billy M Greene
Phyllis Hill
Philip Huston
Arthur Jarrett
Will Kuluva
Will Lee
Martin Newman
Tom Reynolds
Leigh Whipper
Mary Fletcher
Simon Oakland
Eugenia Rawls
Mary Jane Shea

1 of these 25 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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

José Ferrer

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