Theatre Register

Mr. Sycamore, 1942

Shows · Guild Theatre, 1942

Original BroadwayAugust Wilson Theatre 19 performances

The run closed November 28, 1942

Opened
November 13, 1942
Closed
November 28, 1942
Performances
19
Previews
Theatre
August Wilson Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 523rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it26 named

Stuart Erwin
Enid Markey
Harry Bellaver
Albert Bergh
Helen Brown
Barbara Dale
Helen Dodson
Jed Dooley
Franklyn Fox
Kenneth Hayden
Mary Heckart
Pearl Herzog
Otto Hulett
Ray J Largay
Louise Mcbride
John Philliber
Rupert Pole
Leona Powers
Harry Sheppard
Buddy Swan
Ernest Theiss
Harry Townes
Albert Vees

3 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 23 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 Mr. Sycamore at all.
  • No show page for Mr. Sycamore. 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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