The run closed September 26, 1942
- Opened
- January 22, 1942
- Closed
- September 26, 1942
- Performances
- 286
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Majestic Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 110th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Porgy and Bess 7 more that season
| 1935 | Alvin Theatre Original · Rouben Mamoulian | 124 perf. |
| 1943 | 44th Street Theatre Revival · Robert Ross | 24 perf. |
| 1944 | City Center Revival · Robert Ross | 64 perf. |
| 1953 | Revival Revival | 305 perf. |
| 1976 | Uris Theatre Revival · Jack O'Brien | 122 perf. |
| 1983 | Radio City Music Hall Revival · Jack O'Brien | 45 perf. |
| 2012 | Richard Rodgers Theatre Revival · Diane Paulus | 322 perf. |
Who was in it31 named
William Bowers
Osbert Chevers
Henry Davis
Robert Ecton
Harriet Jackson
Jacqueline Jennings
The Eva Jessye Choir Eva Jessye Choral Conductor
Naida King
Rosalie King
Avon Long
Harvey Mcgill
Gibbs Penrose
William Richardson
Jimmy Waters
Granville Williams
Lorraine Williams
William Woolfolk
John Demmigar
Etta Moten
12 of these 31 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 19 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
- Robert Ross
- Producer
- Cheryl Crawford
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.
Recordings 5 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Porgy and Bess, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
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.
- Which of the 5 recordings of Porgy and Bess document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.