The run closed November 25, 1939
- Opened
- October 15, 1938
- Closed
- November 25, 1939
- Performances
- 472
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 17th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Abe Lincoln in Illinois 1 more that season
| 1993 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Gerald Gutierrez | 40 perf. |
Who was in it72 named
Raymond Massey
Ora Alexander
Dorothy Allan
Frank Andrews
Lloyd Barry
Bette Benfield
Hubert Brown
Everett Charlton
George Christie
David Clarke
May Collins
Glenn Coulter
Dearon Darnay
Robert Fitzsimmons
Lillian Foster
John Gerard
Dorothy Greeley
Arthur Griffin
David Hewes
Alfred Jenkins
Walter Kapp
Muriel Kirkland
Harry Levian
Adele Longmire
George Malcolm
Lewis Martin
Kevin Mccarthy
Lex Parrish
Albert Phillips
Wendell K Phillips
Mckinley Reeves
Elizabeth Reller
Marion Rooney
Herbert Rudley
Bert Schorr
Allen Shaw
Howard Sherman
Lotte Stawisky
Anne Stevenson
Calvin Thomas
Thomas F Tracey
Frank Tweddell
Iris Whitney
Dolores Williams
Joseph Wiseman
Harrison Woodhull
Richard Gaines
Alexander Clark
John Corington
Augusta Dabney
Thomas Daly
Edward Downes
Peter Flint
Fred Herrick
Wardell Jennings
Ted Kral
Louis Marsh
Mary Michael
James Moore
Paul Nevens
William Norton
Robert Porterfield
Grandon Rhodes
Joanna Roos
Richard Ross
Lewis L Russell
Margaret Stallings
David Stevenson
Conway Washburn
Jesse Wynne
2 of these 72 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 70 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Elmer Rice
- Producer
- The Playwrights' Company (Maxwell Anderson; S.N. Behrman; Elmer Rice; Robert E. Sherwood; Sidney Howard)
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Abe Lincoln in Illinois at all.
- No show page for Abe Lincoln in Illinois. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.