Theatre Register

Ah, Wilderness!, 1941

Shows · Guild Theatre, 1941

Revival BroadwayAugust Wilson Theatre 29 performances

The run closed October 25, 1941

Opened
October 2, 1941
Closed
October 25, 1941
Performances
29
Previews
Theatre
August Wilson Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 428th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Ah, Wilderness! 4 more that season

1933 Guild Theatre Original · Philip Moeller 289 perf.
1975 Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Arvin Brown 85 perf.
1988 Neil Simon Theatre Revival · Arvin Brown 13 perf.
1998 Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Daniel Sullivan 54 perf.

Who was in it15 named

Philippa Bevans
Harry Carey
Victor Chapin
Walter Craig
Edmund Dorsay
Virginia Kaye
Tommy Lewis
Dorothy Littlejohn
Enid Markey
Dennie Moore
Hale Norcross
William Prince
Zachary Scott
Tom Tully

1 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 14 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
Eva Le Gallienne
Producer
The Theatre Guild

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 Ah, Wilderness! at all.
  • No show page for Ah, Wilderness!. 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.

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