PlayRomantic ComedyOriginalBroadway
Opening Date
Nov 08, 1950
Closing Date
Mar 17, 1951
Performances
151
PlayRomantic ComedyOriginalBroadway
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ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION

Theatres
Royale Theatre
(Nov 08, 1950 - Mar 17, 1951)
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.
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
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

Royale Theatre (Nov 08, 1950 - Mar 17, 1951)

Cast

Trader Faulkner
Richard
an orphaned clerk

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Award

1951 Recipient
Richard Burton
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