Theatre Register

Jacobowsky and the Colonel, 1944

Shows · Martin Beck Theatre, 1944

Original BroadwayAl Hirschfeld Theatre 417 performances

The run closed March 10, 1945

Opened
March 14, 1944
Closed
March 10, 1945
Performances
417
Previews
Theatre
Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 72nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it29 named

Louis Calhern
Oscar Karlweis
Harold Vermilyea
J Edward Bromberg
Donald Cameron
Philip Collier
Harry Davis
Louise Dowdney
Joseph Kallini
Peter Kass
Edward Kreisler
Don Lee
Jules Leni
Jane Marbury
E G Marshall
Kitty Mattern
Bob Merritt
Frank Overton
William Sanders
Burton Tripp
Hilda Vaughn
Harrison Winter
Herbert Yost
Donald Arbury
Oliver Cliff
Loney Lewis
Herbert Ratner
Gwilym Williams

1 of these 29 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 28 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
Elia Kazan
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 Jacobowsky and the Colonel at all.
  • No show page for Jacobowsky and the Colonel. 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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