The Visit, 1958

The run closed November 29, 1958

Opened

May 5, 1958

Closed

November 29, 1958

Performances

189

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 145th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Visit 4 more that season

1973	Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival · Harold Prince	32 perf.
1992	Criterion Center Stage Right Revival · Edwin Sherin	45 perf.
2011	Ambassador Theatre Revival · Carl Andress	1 perf.
2015	Revival Revival · John Doyle	39 perf.

Who was in it26 named

Lynn Fontanne
Alfred Lunt
Marla Adams
Frieda Altman
David Clarke
Robert Donley
Harrison Dowd
Alfred Hoffman
John Kane
Gertrude Kinnell
Joseph Leberman
James Macaaron
Lois Mckim
Kent Montroy
Edward Moor
Daphne Newton
Eric Porter
Milton Selzer
Keneth Thornett
William Thourlby
Ken Walken
Sarah Cunningham

4 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 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

Peter Brook

Producer

The Producers Theatre

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.

Recordings 2 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against The Visit, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

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.
• Which of the 2 recordings of The Visit document this run, if any.
• No show page for The Visit. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.