Jane Eyre

Belasco Theatre, (5/01/1958 - 6/14/1958)

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Opening Date:	May 01, 1958
Closing Date:	Jun 14, 1958	Total Performances:	52

Category: Play, Romance, Original, Broadway

Description: A drama in three acts and five scenes

Setting: Thornfield Hall, in Millcote, England, during the early part of the nineteenth century.

Opening Night Credits
Awards

Production Staff
Produced by Courtney Burr; Produced in association with Sterling Productions
Written by Huntington Hartford; Based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë; Music arranged by Lehman Engel
Directed by Demetrios Vilan
Scenic Design by Ben Edwards; Costume Design by Motley and Frank Spencer; Assistant to Mr. Edwards: Richard Burns and Richard Mason
Company Manager: Edward Choate; Business Manager: Richard E. French
Stage Manager: Charles Durand, Bob Paschall and Tom McDermott
Press Representative: George Ross and Madi Blitzstein

Cast

Eric Portman	Edward Rochester Master of Thornfield
Jan Brooks	Jane Eyre a governess
Blanche Yurka	Mrs. Fairfax the housekeeper
Francis Compton	Gregory
Adrian Foley	Lord Ingram her son
Carol Hebald	Leah a servant
Norah Howard	Lady Ingram
Adelaide Klein	Grace Poole
Iola Lynn	Hon. Blanche Ingram her daughter
John Malcolm	Briggs
Tom McDermott	Guest
Richard Nicholls	Mr. Green
Nick Richards	Guest
Dorothy Scott	Guest
Frank Silvera	Richard Mason a gentleman from Jamaica
George Spelvin	Colonel Dent
Ann Stanwell	Miss Wood
Susan Towers	Adele Varens Mr. Rochester's ward
Jane White	Bertha
Douglas Wood	Reverend Wood

Understudies: Adelaide Klein (Mrs. Fairfax), John Malcolm (Edward Rochester), Tom McDermott (Lord Ingram, Richard Mason), Richard Nicholls (Gregory), Dorothy Scott (Grace Poole) and Ann Stanwell (Jane Eyre)

Tony Award^®
1959 Best Scenic Design [nominee]
Ben Edwards