They Knew What They Wanted, 1976

The run closed March 6, 1976

Opened

January 27, 1976

Closed

March 6, 1976

Performances

23

Previews

7

Theatre

Playhouse Theatre

Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and carry a performance count, this is the 351st 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
1939	Empire Theatre Revival · Robert Ross	24 perf.
1949	Music Box Theatre Revival · Robert Perry	61 perf.

Who was in it9 named

Joel Colodner
Clarence Felder
Calvin Jung
Ben Kapen
Lois Nettleton

4 of these 9 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 5 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

Stephen Porter

Producer

The Phoenix Theatre (T. Edward Hambleton: Co-Founder and Managing Director; Norris Houghton: Co-Founder)

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.