Theatre Register

Green Grow the Lilacs, 1931

Shows · Guild Theatre, 1931

Original BroadwayAugust Wilson Theatre 64 performances

The run closed March 21, 1931

Opened
January 26, 1931
Closed
March 21, 1931
Performances
64
Previews
Theatre
August Wilson Theatre

Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 389th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it33 named

Jane Alden
A L Bartolot
Carl Beasley
Gordon Bryant
Elmo Carr
Slim Cavanaugh
Everett Cheetham
Ruth Chorpenning
William Chosnyk
Tex Cooper
Alice Frost
Richard Hale
Chick Hannan
Peggy Hannan
William T Hays
John Hibbard
Faith Hope
Roy Ketcham
Orlando Lee
Lois Lindon
Jack Miller
Tommy Pladget
Eleanor Powers
Paul Ravell
Woodward Ritter
Pete Schwartz
Franchot Tone
June Walker
Helen Westley
Joe Wilson
Jean Wood
Norton Worden

1 of these 33 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.

Creative team

Director
Herbert J. Biberman
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 Green Grow the Lilacs at all.
  • No show page for Green Grow the Lilacs. 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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