Native Son, 1941

The run closed June 28, 1941

Opened

March 24, 1941

Closed

June 28, 1941

Performances

114

Previews

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Theatre

St James Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 213th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Native Son 1 more that season

Who was in it25 named

Philip Bourneuf1908–1979

Jacqueline Ghant Andre
Frances Bavier
John Berry
C M Bootsie Davis
Eileen Burns
Anne Burr
Ray Collins
Evelyn Ellis
Nell Harrison
Canada Lee
William Malone
Helen Martin
Rena Mitchell
Joseph Pevney
J Flashe Riley
Don Roberts
Stephen Roberts
Erskine Sanford
Wardell Saunders
Everett Sloane
Paul Stewart
Rodester Timmons
Lloyd Warren
George Zorn

1 of these 25 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

Orson Welles

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 Native Son at all.
• No director named.
• No show page for Native Son. 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.