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The Lady's Not For Burning   
A Romantic Comedy

 
Royale Theatre , (11/08/1950 - 3/17/1951)
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Opening Date:Nov 08, 1950   
Closing Date:Mar 17, 1951 Total Performances:151

Category: Play, Romantic Comedy, Original, Broadway
Setting: A room in the house of Hebble Tyson, Mayor of the small market town of Cool Clary. The 15th Century either more or less or exactly.


Production Staff
Theatre Owned / Operated by Magoro Operating Corporation
Produced by Atlantis Productions; Produced in association with The Theatre Guild, Tennent Productions Ltd. and John C. Wilson
Written by Christopher Fry
Directed by John Gielgud
Decor by Oliver Messel
General Manager: C. Edwin Knill; Company Manager: Charles Mulligan
Stage Manager: Alison Colvil; Assistant Stage Mgr: Alan Haines and Trader Faulkner
Press Representative: Willard Keefe and David Tebet; Advertising: Ingram Ash
Cast
Pamela Brown Jennet Jourdemayne
John Gielgud Thomas Mendip
a discharged soldier
Peter Bull Edward Tappercoom
a justice
Richard Burton Richard
an orphaned clerk
David Evans Nicholas Devise
George Howe Hebble Tyson
the Mayor
Richard Leech Humphrey Devise
brother of Nicholas
Eliot Makeham The Chaplin
Penelope Munday Alizon Eliot
Nora Nicholson Margaret Devise
mother of Nicholas
Esme Percy Matthew Skipps
1951 Theatre World Award
winnerRichard Burton [winner]