The run closed January 15, 1940
- Opened
- January 10, 1940
- Closed
- January 15, 1940
- Performances
- 7
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- 44th Street Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 694th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it55 named
James Armstrong
Ernest Baskette
Jonathan Brice
Oscar Brooks
Alyce Carter
Minto Cato
Ella Belle Davis
George Dickson
John Diggs
Nora Evans
Samuel A Floyd
Marie Fraser
Samuel Gary
Ruth Gibbs
Louis Gilbert
James B Gordon
Claudia Hall
Edgar Hall
Kate Hall
Wyer Owens Handy
Robert Harvey
Lloyd Howlett
Myra Johnson
George Jones Jr
George Kennedy
Mildred Lassiter
James Lightfoot
Henrietta Lovelace
Sadie Mcgill
Massie Patterson
Paul Robeson
Bayard Rustin
C W Scott
Ernest Shaw
Anne Simmons
Maude Simmons
Merritt Smith
J de Witt Spencer
Randall Steplight
Eva Vaughan
Benveneta Washington
Mattie Washington
Charles Welch
Alice White
Josh White
Frederick Wilkerson
Musa Williams
William Woolfolk
Ray Yeates
6 of these 55 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 49 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
- Anthony Brown
- Producer
- Sam Byrd
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 John Henry at all.
- No show page for John Henry. 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.