Theatre Register

My Sister Eileen, 1940

Shows · Biltmore Theatre, 1940

Original BroadwaySamuel J. Friedman Theatre 864 performances

The run closed January 16, 1943

Opened
December 26, 1940
Closed
January 16, 1943
Performances
864
Previews
Theatre
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 16th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it42 named

Michael Ames
Alan Brixey
George Cotton
Tom Dillon
Donald Foster
Eda Heinemann
Gordon Jones
Joseph Kallini
Peter Knego
Bruce Macfarlane
Paul Marion
Charles Martin
William Post Jr
Richard Quine
Helen Ray
Eric Roberts
Mel Roberts
Jo Ann Sayers
Benson Spring
Joan Tompkins
Robert White
Joe Bush
Henry Jones
David Macomber
Alva Milligan
Priscilla Newton
Theodore Newton
Roy Roberts
Max Showalter
Arthur Tell
Jerome Thor
Sheila Trent
Ethel Wilson
Tony Bickley
Victor Finney
Thomas Hume
Peggy Knudsen
Herbert Rissman

4 of these 42 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 38 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
George S. Kaufman
Producer
Max Gordon

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 My Sister Eileen at all.
  • No show page for My Sister Eileen. 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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