They Knew What They Wanted, 1939

The run closed October 21, 1939

Opened

October 2, 1939

Closed

October 21, 1939

Performances

24

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Empire Theatre

Of the 1,389 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and carry a performance count, this is the 657th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of They Knew What They Wanted 4 more that season

1924	Garrick Theatre Original · Philip Moeller	414 perf.
1924	Garrick Theatre Transfer
1949	Music Box Theatre Revival · Robert Perry	61 perf.
1976	Playhouse Theatre Revival · Stephen Porter	23 perf.

Who was in it23 named

Dolores Baladoni
Miriam Battista
David Beale
Marvis Butler
Robert Carr
Peter Goo Chong
Joseph Conway
Joseph Monneret de Villard
Norma Green
Philip Huston
Charles Kennedy
Nanon Kiam
Charles E Maxwell
Edward Mayor
Douglass Montgomery
Shirley Osborne
Everett Ripley
Elena Salvatore
Vito Scotti
Giuseppe Sterni
Marylin Wahl
June Walker

1 of these 23 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

Robert Ross

Producer

Leonard Sillman

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 They Knew What They Wanted at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.