The run closed June 22, 1940
- Opened
- November 27, 1937
- Closed
- June 22, 1940
- Performances
- 1,108
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Princess Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 4th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Pins And Needles 1 more that season
| 1922 | Shubert Theatre Original · Julian Mitchell | 46 perf. |
Who was in it56 named
Lydia Annucci
Sol Babchin
Sadie Bershadsky
Gerald Cameron
Sam Dratch
Al Eben
Zitta Edinburgh
Anthony Fazio
Tillie Feldman
Irene Fox
Sandra Gelman
Eugene Goldstein
Hyman Goldstein
Enzo Grassi
Nina Harary
Hattie Hausdorf
Tony Heath
Lynne Jaffee
Harry Kadison
Hyman Kaplan
Rose Kaufman
Bella Kinburn
Al Levy
May Martin
Murray Modick
Betty Morrison
Miriam Morrison
Jean Newman
Rose Newmark
Olive Pearman
Grace Quatropani
Joseph Roth
Ruth Rubinstein
Fred Schmidt
Paul Seymour
Isaac Sides
Sidney Sklar
Mae Spiegel
Beatty Uretsky
Millie Weitz
Alma Charmat
Ruth Elbaum
Hy Gardner
Berni Gould
Ida Mandel
Jean Nicita
Al Saxe
Moe Schreier
Herb Smith
Dorothy Tucker
Ella Gerber
Sol Israel
4 of these 56 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 52 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
- Charles Friedman
- Choreographer
- Gluck Sandor
- Producer
- ILGWU
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.
Around this production
- Pins and Needles way initially presented for a limited engagement at the tiny Labor Stage (formerly the Princess Theatre) by and for members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, but it soon attracted audiences in such droves that it kept on running until it overtook Irene as the long-run record holder for… Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 105
- Retitled New Pins and Needles in 1939, the show moved to the Windsor Theatre, then on 48th Street east of 7th Avenue, at a top ticket price of $1.65. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 106
- Yet when this legendary freak success closed up shop it had bested the long-run record for musicals recently established by Pins and Needles. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 108
- Pins and Needles was initially presented for a limited engagement at the tiny Labor Stage (formerly the Princess Theatre) by and for members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, but it soon attracted audiences in such droves that it kept on running until it overtook Irene as the long-run record holder for… Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 124
- Katherine Dunham’s first Broadway credit was for the choreography for a song added to the 1939 labor revue Pins and Needles, which had opened in 1937. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 43
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Pins And Needles at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.