The Skin of Our Teeth, 1955

The run closed September 3, 1955

Opened

August 17, 1955

Closed

September 3, 1955

Performances

22

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Anta Playhouse

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 457th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Skin of Our Teeth 3 more that season

1942	Plymouth Theatre Original · Elia Kazan	359 perf.
1975	Mark Hellinger Theatre Revival · José Quintero	7 perf.
2022	Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Lileana Blain-Cruz	35 perf.

Who was in it27 named

Helen Hayes
Florence Reed
Heller Halliday
Don Murray
Jonathan Anderson
Charles Boaz
Emily Cobb
Jack Delmonte
John Dorman
David Elliott
Alice Fay
Earl George
Tom Geroghty
Fred Kareman
Eileen Lear
Lily Lodge
Paul Morrison
Richard O Neil
Maud Scheerer
Frank Silvera
Ann Stanwell
Frances Sternhagen
Patricia Taffe
Norma Veney

3 of these 27 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

Director

Alan Schneider

Producer

Robert Whitehead

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