Theatre Register

Billy Draws a Horse, 1939

Shows · Playhouse Theatre, 1939

Original BroadwayPlayhouse Theatre 13 performances

The run closed December 31, 1939

Opened
December 21, 1939
Closed
December 31, 1939
Performances
13
Previews
Theatre
Playhouse Theatre

Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 905th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

The theatre record for this run is wrong

This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.

Who was in it14 named

Hayley Bell
Edna Bennett
Carol Curtis Brown
Leo Bulgakov
William Chambers
Florence Edney
Jules Epailly
Grace George
Lumsden Hare
Elizabeth Inglis
Harry Plimmer
Marion Sittler
Douglas Walton

1 of these 14 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 13 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
Harry Wagstaff Gribble
Producer
Lee Shubert

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 Billy Draws a Horse at all.
  • No show page for Billy Draws a Horse. 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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