Lightnin', 1938

The run closed October 29, 1938

Opened

September 15, 1938

Closed

October 29, 1938

Performances

54

Previews

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Theatre

John Golden Theatre

Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 437th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Lightnin' 1 more that season

Who was in it26 named

Helen Brooks
Ruth Burton
Laura Cheston
Lillian Ecklund
Franklyn Fox
Marjorie Garrett
Walter Gilbert
John Griggs
Ann Hazzard
Roger Hundley
Muriel Hutchison
Orland James
Robert Lowes
Harriet Macgibbon
Mrs Priestly Morrison
Hugh Norton
Bessie Pepper
William Phillips
Henry Richards
George Spelvin
Augusta Wallace
Pansy Wilcox
Myron Hirsch
Malcolm Laing

2 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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

John Golden

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 Lightnin' at all.
• No director named.
• No show page for Lightnin'. 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.