The Yeomen of the Guard, 1948

The run closed March 27, 1948

Opened

February 2, 1948

Closed

March 27, 1948

Performances

16

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

New Century Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and carry a performance count, this is the 534th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Yeomen of the Guard 9 more that season

1888	Casino Theatre Original
1915	48th Street Theatre Revival · Herbert Cripps	24 perf.
1933	Majestic Theatre Revival · Milton Aborn	8 perf.
1934	Martin Beck Theatre Revival · James McRobbie Gordon	11 perf.
1935	Adelphi Theatre Revival	12 perf.
1936	Martin Beck Theatre Revival	20 perf.
1939	Martin Beck Theatre Revival
1944	Ambassador Theatre Revival · R.H. Burnside	1 perf.
1955	Shubert Theatre Revival · Robert A. Gibson	8 perf.

Who was in it14 named

Gwyneth Cullimore
Richard Dunn
Darrell Fancourt
Denise Findlay
Ella Halman
Tom Hancock
C William Morgan
Leonard Osborn
Peter Pratt
Helen Roberts
Rhys Thomas
Richard Walker
Richard Watson

1 of these 14 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 13 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

Anna Bethell

Producer

D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

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 1 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against The Yeomen of the Guard, 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 1 recordings of The Yeomen of the Guard document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.