Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Pygmalion' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; (file contains reviews for 1927 onwards only but has typescript cast lists for 1914 and 1920); typescript inside front cover and throughout gives cast lists and dates; includes programmes with cast lists 1914, 1951; also includes photographs of cast members in scenes from various productions
Performed at The Kingsway Theatre, London, 19 Jan 1924, closing performance, 9 Feb 1927; produced by Esme Percy; The Kingsway Theatre, London, 4 May 1931 (two weeks); presented by the London Playgoers League Ltd; The Old Vic, London, 21 Sep 1937, closing performance, 9 Oct 1937; (previously seen as part of the Buxton Theatre Festival at the Buxton Opera House 30 Aug 1937); produced by Tyrone Guthrie, scenery and costumes by Molly McArthur; [The Royal Court Theatre, Jan 1930] Originally at: His Majestys Theatre, Haymarket, 11 Apr 1914, closing performance (118th) 17 Jul 1914; produced by Herbert (Beerbohm) Tree; The Aldwych Theatre, London, 10 Feb 1920, closing performance (79th) 17 Apr 1920; presented by Mrs Patrick Campbell; The Duke of Yorks Theatre, St Martins Lane, London, 10 May 1920, [closing performance] (24th) 29 May 1920; The Haymarket Theatre, London, 13 Jun 1939, closing performance (22nd) 1 Jul 1939; presented by Jack de Leon; produced by Campbell Gullan Revived at: The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 12 Dec 1944; presented by Rodney Phillips, Baxter Somerville and Peter Hoar; The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, Jun 1947; (previously produced at the Kings Theatre, Southsea) presented by Tennent Plays Ltd; directed by Peter Ashmore The Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage, 23 Dec 1950; presented by Molly May Ltd; directed by Michael Langham; settings and costumes by John Pemberton; The Royal Theatre, Nottingham, 14 Aug 1951 (continuing at The Lyceum, Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh Festival, 20 Aug 1951); presented by Henry Sherek Ltd.; produced by Peter Potter; settings by Hutchinson Scott On tour: 1927: The Wimbledon Theatre; The Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool; 1929: The Princes Theatre, Bradford; The Grand Theatre, Luton; 1930: The New Theatre, Cambridge; 1931: The Royal Theatre, Brighton; 1933: The Pavilion Theatre, Torquay; 1936: Malvern 1939: The Opera House, Manchester; The Empire Theatre, Liverpool; The Empire Theatre, Stratford; The Empire Theatre, Leeds; The Wolverhampton Hippodrome France: Theatre Albert I, Paris, 2 Aug 1924; presented by the Macdona Players America: The Guild Theatre, New York, 15 Nov 1926 (146 performances); directed by Dudley Digges; settings by Jo Mielziner; The Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, 26 Dec 1946 - [23 Mar 1946]; staged by Cedric Hardwicke; settings by Donald Enslager; costumes by Motley
Casts: Herbert Tree, Philip Merivale, Algernon Greig, Edmund Gurney, Roy Lyford, Alexander Sarner, Mrs Patrick Campbell, Carlotta Addison, Margaret Busse, Rosamund Mayne Young, Geraldine Olliffe, Irene Delisse, C. Aubrey Smith, Bobbie Andrews, Frank Bertram, Faith Celli, Marion Terry, Agnes Thomas, Frank Cellier, Dora Macdona, Shirley King, George de Lara, George E. Bancroft, Gwen Ffrangcon Davies, Howieson Culff, S. Esme Percy, Grace Edwin, George Larchet, George Merritt, Bessie Rignold, Margot Drake, Wilfred Lawson, Leah Bateman, Phyllis Relph, Stanley Drewitt, Alice Darch, Joan Hopegood, Barbara Everest, James Parish, Kennedy Allen, Lily Vere, Florence Jackson, Tom Mowbray, George S. Wray, Arthur Claremont, Stella Leigh, Roland Peat, Nan Doe, Edith Ife, Vernon Sylvaine Patience Rignold, Margot Lister, Mary Townley, Bertha Woolcote, Willard Stoker, John Boddington, Geoffrey Lovatt, Harold Graves, Gwladys Evan Morris, Helen Spencer, Ambrose Day, Barbara Kent, Diana Cairo, Ida Mallais, Ernest Thesiger, Cecil Trouncer, Wendy Hiller, Wilson Coleman, Frances Waring, Sylvia Coleridge, Stephen Murray, Diana Wynyard, Mark Digman, Robert Morley, Dora Gregory, Jay Laurier, Jean Cadell, Brenda Newbold, Monica Sterling, Tonie Edgar Bruce, Charels Sewell, Philip Friend, Margaret Rawlings, Lewis Casson, Basil Sydney, Ben Soutten, Helen Haye, Irene Green, Alan Harvey, Harry Pease, Robert Syers, Peter Humphreys, Faith Liddle, Olga Edwardes, Robert Sansom, Donald Mather, Frances Rowe, William Roderick, George Wood, Vox Draffen, Geoffrey Hammond, Dorothy Lacey, Myrtle Moss, Peter Streeton, Ellen Pollock, Michael Golden, Margaret Halstan, John Leather, Patricia Hillard, Joan Craft, Elaine Inescourt, Nigel Clarke, Alec Clunes, Mervyn Johns, Brenda Bruce, Henryetta Edwards, Donald Finlay, Lucille Steven, Betty Sinclair, John Wyndham, Winifred Evans, Charles Keogh, Edward Burnham, Edward Malin, Pat Salter, Gwen Hill, Pat Egerton, Margaret Lockwood, Allan Webb, R. Stuart Lindsell, Beatrice Barley, Gladys Boot, Dorothy Reynolds, John Warner, Gillian Howell, Frank Royde, John Allen, Charles Victor, Mary Walklett, Pat Sandys, Gwen Nelson, Sam Beazley, Yvonne Mitchell, Walter Hudd, Robin Bailey, Alex Davion, Betty Henderson, Gordon Harker, Jean Anderson, Susan Newall, Martin Case, David Rooke, Julian Herrington, Roger Saxton-Howes, Pamela Mann, Phyllis Connard, Winifred Hanley, Charles Cardon, Charles Courtneidge, Lynn Fontanne, J. W. Austin, Bernard Savage, Leigh Lovel, Thomas Meegan, Kitty Wilson, Reginald Mason, Edward Hartford, Beryl Mercer, Henry Travers, Helen Westley, Dorothy Fletcher |