The run closed December 4, 1937
- Opened
- December 2, 1937
- Closed
- December 4, 1937
- Performances
- 4
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 1,227th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it29 named
John T L Bunn
Eric Burroughs
Alvin Childress
Martin de C Slade
Beth Dixon
Beulah E Edmonds
George Fitzpatrick
Juan Hernandez
Irene Hill
Bertram Holmes
Ira Johnson
Paul Johnson
Kathryn Lavall
Canada Lee
Richard Mcmyers
Butterfly Mcqueen
Julian Miles
Ernest Rowan
John Shellie
George W Smith
T Burton Smith
Allen Tinney
William Tinney
Frederick Wallace
Jimmy Waters
Christola Williams
3 of these 29 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 26 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
- Producer
- George Abbott
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 Brown Sugar at all.
- No director named.
- No show page for Brown Sugar. 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.