On stage 10 productions, 24 years
| 1930 | Scarlet Sister Mary Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original · directed by E. M. Blyth | 24 perf. |
| 1935 | Porgy and Bess Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by Rouben Mamoulian | 124 perf. |
| 1940 | Cabin In The Sky Martin Beck Theatre · Original · directed by George Balanchine, Albert Lewis | 156 perf. |
| 1942 | Porgy and Bess Majestic Theatre · Revival · directed by Robert Ross | 286 perf. |
| 1943 | Run, Little Chillun Hudson Theatre · Revival · directed by Clarence Muse | 16 perf. |
| 1946 | Show Boat Ziegfeld Theatre · Revival · directed by Hassard Short | 418 perf. |
| 1948 | Kiss Me, Kate New Century Theatre · Original · directed by John C. Wilson | 1,077 perf. |
| 1948 | Show Boat City Center · Revival | 15 perf. |
| 1953 | Porgy and Bess Theatre not recorded · Revival | 305 perf. |
| 1954 | Mrs. Patterson National Theatre · Original · directed by Guthrie McClintic | 101 perf. |
Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.
Worked with more than once12 names
| Walter Mosby | 3 productions |
| Todd Duncan | 3 productions |
| John Garth | 3 productions |
| J. Rosamond Johnson | 3 productions |
| William C Smith | 2 productions |
| Warren Coleman | 2 productions |
| The Eva Jessye Choir Eva Jessye Choral Conductor | 2 productions |
| Seldon Bennett | 2 productions |
| Ruby Elzy | 2 productions |
| Rosalie King | 2 productions |
| Ray Yeates | 2 productions |
| Olive Ball | 2 productions |
Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 7 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.
Also credited on1 work
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature3 passages
- Original revival cast (1946) : Jan Clayton, Carol Bruce, Charles Fredericks, Kenneth Spencer, Helen Dowdy, Edwin McArthur (conductor). ‡ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
- Cast: Todd Duncan, Anne Brown, Warren Coleman, John W. Bubbles, Abbie Mitchell, Ruby Elzy, Georgette Harvey, Edward Matthews, Helen Dowdy, J. Rosamond Johnsonebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- "No Shoes" dance number in Show Boat, with (center) Laveme French as Sam, Pearl Primus as Sal, and Helen Dowdy as Queenie. New York, Ziegfeld Theatre, 1946. [Culver Pictures]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.
What this page does not know
- What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
- Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
- Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
- Which of the credits above the roles on this record — actor — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.