Native Son, 1942

The run closed January 2, 1943

Opened

October 23, 1942

Closed

January 2, 1943

Performances

84

Previews

—

Theatre

Majestic Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 260th 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 it21 named

Canada Lee
John Berry
Anne Burr
Frances Bavier
Ralph Bell
C M Bootsie Davis
Eileen Burns
Alexander Clark
Evelyn Ellis
Nell Harrison
John Ireland
William Malone
Helen Martin
Rena Mitchell
Herbert Ratner
Wardell Saunders
Rodester Timmons
Graham Velsey
Rudolph Whitaker
Irving Morrow

1 of these 21 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 20 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

Orson Welles

Producer

The Brandts

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 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.