The run closed April 26, 1941
- Opened
- December 30, 1940
- Closed
- April 26, 1941
- Performances
- 136
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- August Wilson Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 186th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it18 named
Harald Dyrenforth
Betty Field
Paul Hernried
Karl Malden
Paul Mann
Hugh Marlowe
Boris Marshalov
Kevin Mccarthy
Constance Mckay
Eleonora Mendelssohn
Don Nevins
Helen Renee
Grandon Rhodes
James Seeley
Lydia St Clair
John Triggs
Rudolph Weiss
1 of these 18 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 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
- 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 Flight to the West at all.
- No director named.
- No show page for Flight to the West. 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.