PlayComedyOriginalBroadway
Opening Date
Nov 23, 1950
Closing Date
Jan 13, 1951
Previews
1
Performances
68
PlayComedyOriginalBroadway
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ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION

Theatres
Martin Beck Theatre
(Nov 23, 1950 - Jan 13, 1951)
Setting
The winter garden of Madame Desmermortes' chateau in Auvergne, France, in the spring of 1912.
Theatre Owned / Operated by Martin Beck Theatre Corporation
Produced by Gilbert Miller
Written by Jean Anouilh; Translated by Christopher Fry; Incidental music by Francis Poulenc
Staged by Gilbert Miller; Choreographed by Ted Cappy
Setting supervised by Raymond Sovey; Lighting supervised by Raymond Sovey; Costume Design by Castillo; The Winter Garden setting designed by Georges Wakhevitch; Show curtains by Raoul Dufy
General Manager: Harry Fleischman; Company Manager: Harry Essex
Production Stage Manager: B.D. Kranz; Assistant Stage Mgr: Boris Marshalov
Production Assistant: Richard Bender; Press Representative: Richard Maney and Frank Goodman
Stella Andrew
Isabelle
a ballet dancer
Denholm Elliott
Hugo
a young man about town
 
Frederic
Hugo's brother, in love with Diana Messerschmann
Oscar Karlweis
Messerschmann
Diana's father, a melancholy millionaire
Lucile Watson
Madame Desmermortes
aunt to Hugo, Frederic and Lady India
William Allyn
Footman
Francis Compton
Joshua
a crumbling butler
Georgina Cookson
Lady India
Messerschmann's mistress, secretly in love with Bombelles
Marcel Dill
The General
Michael Evans
Patrice Bombelles
Messerschmann's secretive secretary
Brenda Forbes
Isabelle's Mother
a teacher of the pianoforte
Cynthia Latham
Capulat
Madame Desmermortes' faded companion
Bennett Martin
Footman
Neva Patterson
Diana Messerschmann
engaged to Frederic, secretly in love with Hugo
Philip Tonge
Romainville
a patron of the arts and of Isabelle
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