Theatre Register

On Whitman Avenue, 1946

Shows · Cort Theatre, 1946

Original BroadwayJames Earl Jones Theatre 150 performances

The run closed September 14, 1946

Opened
May 8, 1946
Closed
September 14, 1946
Performances
150
Previews
Theatre
James Earl Jones Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 180th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it15 named

Vivian Baber
Ernestine Barrier
Philip Clarke
Jean Cleveland
Betty Greene Little
Martin Miller
Stephen Roberts
Robert Simon
Augustus Smith
Kenneth Terry
Hilda Vaughn
Richard Williams
Perry Wilson

2 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 13 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
Margo Jones
Producer
Canada Lee

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 On Whitman Avenue at all.
  • No show page for On Whitman Avenue. 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.

Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.