Theatre Register

Mourning Becomes Electra, 1931

Shows · Guild Theatre, 1931

Original BroadwayAugust Wilson Theatre 150 performances

The run closed April 16, 1932

Opened
October 26, 1931
Closed
April 16, 1932
Performances
150
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 175th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Mourning Becomes Electra 2 more that season

1932 Alvin Theatre Revival · Philip Moeller 16 perf.
1972 Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Theodore Mann 55 perf.

Who was in it17 named

Mary Arbenz
Lee Baker
James Boshell
Alice Brady
Jack Byrne
Augusta Durgeon
Bernice Elliott
Philip Foster
John Hendricks
Arthur Hughes
Earle Larimore
Emily Lorraine
Alla Nazimova
Oliver Putnam
Erskine Sanford
Janet Young

1 of these 17 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 16 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
Philip Moeller
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 Mourning Becomes Electra at all.
  • No show page for Mourning Becomes Electra. 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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