The Taming of the Shrew, 1940

The run closed February 10, 1940

Opened

February 5, 1940

Closed

February 10, 1940

Performances

8

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Neil Simon Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and carry a performance count, this is the 640th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Taming of the Shrew 19 more that season

1768	John Street Theatre Original
1894	Dalys Theatre Revival
1904	Lyric Theatre Revival
1905	Knickerbocker Theatre Revival
1907	Lyric Theatre Revival
1909	Academy Of Music Revival
1910	Academy Of Music Revival
1911	Broadway Theatre Revival
1912	Manhattan Opera House Revival
1913	Manhattan Opera House Revival
1914	Hudson Theatre Revival
1919	Shubert Theatre Revival
1924	Jolsons 59th Street Theatre Revival
1927	Garrick Theatre Revival · H. K. Ayliff	175 perf.
1927	Garrick Theatre Transfer
1930	Shubert Theatre Revival
1935	Guild Theatre Revival · Harry Wagstaff Gribble	129 perf.
1951	City Center Revival	15 perf.
1957	Phoenix Theatre Revival · Norman Lloyd	23 perf.

Who was in it31 named

Fay Baker
Harry Be Gar
Charles Bowden
Donald Buka
Gilmore Bush
Francis Compton
Grace Coppin
Alex Courtnay
Sharon Curran
Robert Downing
S Thomas Gomez
Freddie Goodrow
Ray Holgate
Thomas Keenan
Byron Mcgrath
Grace Mcgrath
Gordon Mills
Cameron Mitchell
Don Morrell
Ralph Nelson
Eddo Porto
Charles Silvers
Norman Stuart
Victor Thorley
Brooks West

6 of these 31 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 25 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

Harry Wagstaff Gribble

Producer

The Theatre Guild

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