Twelfth Night, 1940

The run closed March 8, 1941

Opened

November 19, 1940

Closed

March 8, 1941

Performances

129

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

St. James Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and carry a performance count, this is the 193rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Twelfth Night 20 more that season

1804	Park Theatre Original
1869	Dalys Fifth Avenue Theatre Revival
1900	Fifth Avenue Theatre Revival
1905	Knickerbocker Theatre Revival	2 perf.
1907	Lyric Theatre Revival
1910	New Theatre Revival
1911	Broadway Theatre Revival
1912	Manhattan Opera House Revival · Lee Shubert
1913	Manhattan Opera House Revival
1914	Hudson Theatre Revival
1919	Shubert Theatre Revival
1926	Civic Repertory Theatre Revival · Eva Le Gallienne	26 perf.
1930	Shubert Theatre Revival · Fritz Leiber
1941	Little Theatre Revival · George Shdanoff	15 perf.
1949	Empire Theatre Revival · Valentine Windt	48 perf.
1958	Broadway Theatre Revival · Michael Benthall	14 perf.
1972	Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Ellis Rabb	44 perf.
1998	Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Nicholas Hytner	53 perf.
2008	Wyndham's Theatre Original
2013	Belasco Theatre Revival · Tim Carroll	82 perf.

Who was in it23 named

Helen Hayes
Mark Smith
Sophie Stewart
June Walker
Wallace Acton
Wesley Addy
June Brehm
Donald Buka
Osbert Chevers
Alex Courtnay
Larry Gates
Philip Huston
Ellis Irving
Raymond Johnson
Max Leavitt
Irving Morrow
Anthony Ross
Lauren Gilbert
Guy Spaull

4 of these 23 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 19 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

Margaret Webster

Producer

The Theatre Guild (Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner: Administrative Directors)

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