The run closed March 8, 1941
- Opened
- October 25, 1940
- Closed
- March 8, 1941
- Performances
- 156
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 172nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it42 named
Talley Beattey
Wilson Bradley
Claude Brown
Dick Campbell
Rebecca Champion
Rajah Chardieno
Rita Christiana
Earl Edwards
Lucille Ellis
Jieno Moxzer Harris
Clarence Jacobs
J Louis Johnson
Lawaune Kennard
Ella Maclashley
Fradye Marshall
Alexander Mcdonald
Roberta Mclaurin
Arthur Mclean
Al Moore
Evelyn Pilcher
Eulabel Riley
Carmencita Romero
Edith Ross
Louis Sharp
Al Stokes
Earl Sydnor
J Emanuel Vanderhans
Laura Vaughns
Candido Vicenti
Lavinia Williams
Milton Williams
Thomas Woosley
10 of these 42 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 32 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.
Characters12 roles recorded
Ethel Waters Petunia
Dooley Wilson Little Joe
Rex Ingram Lucifer Junior
Katherine Dunham Georgia Brown
Todd Duncan Lawd's General
Milton Williams Fleetfoot
Louis Sharp Dr. Jones
J. Louis Johnson John Henry
Georgia Burke Lily
Dick Campbell Domino Johnson
Jieno Moxzer Harris Imps
J. Rosamond Johnson Sister Green
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- George Balanchine, Albert Lewis
- Choreographer
- George Balanchine
- Producer
- Albert Lewis & Vinton Freedley
- Orchestrations
- Domenico
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.
Around this production
- WHAT?’S UP marked Balanchine’s second and final directing at-tempt; the first had been the more successful CABIN IN THE SKY [Duke: October 25, 1940]. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 396
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Cabin In The Sky at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.