Porgy, 1929

The run dates incomplete

Opened

September 13, 1929

Closed

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Performances

34

Previews

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Theatre

Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 1,167th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.

Other stagings of Porgy 1 more that season

Who was in it23 named

Jack Carter
Peter Clark
A B Comatheire
Evelyn Ellis
Wallace Hill
Wesley Hill
Felix Jacoves
Rose Macclendon
Ella Madison
Morris Mckenny
Garrett Minturn
Dorothy Paul
Hayes Pryor
Wayland Rudd
Erskine Sanford
Frederick Smith
Edna Thomas
Percy Verwayne
Walter Warner
Leigh Whipper
Frank Wilson

2 of these 23 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 21 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

Rouben Mamoulian

Producer

The Theatre Guild

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 Porgy at all.
• When it closed.
• No show page for Porgy. 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.