Theatre Register

Hope for a Harvest, 1941

Shows · Guild Theatre, 1941

Original BroadwayAugust Wilson Theatre 38 performances

The run closed December 27, 1941

Opened
November 26, 1941
Closed
December 27, 1941
Performances
38
Previews
Theatre
August Wilson Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 381st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it10 named

Helen Carew
Florence Eldridge
Arthur Franz
Shelley Hull
Fredric March
Doro Merande
John Morny
Judy Parrish
Alan Reed

1 of these 10 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 9 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
Lester Vail
Producer
The Theatre Guild (Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner: Administrative Directors)

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 Hope for a Harvest at all.
  • No show page for Hope for a Harvest. 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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