The run closed April 8, 1944
- Opened
- February 7, 1944
- Closed
- April 8, 1944
- Performances
- 64
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- City Center
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 299th 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. |
| 1942 | Majestic Theatre Revival · Robert Ross | 286 perf. |
| 1943 | 44th Street Theatre Revival · Robert Ross | 24 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 it41 named
Roger Alford
Ruthetta Anderson
Catherine Ayres
Olive Ball
Richard Bowler
Frances Brock
Don Darcy
Henry Davis
Harold Desverney
John Diggs
William Franklin
Gladys Goode
Leslie Gray
Louisa Howard
Alma Hubbard
Harriet Jackson
Kenneth Konopka
Jerry Laws
Avon Long
Assota Marshall
Sadie Mcgill
Coyal Mcmahon
Etta Moten
George Randol
Douglas Rice
Patricia Rice
Eulabel Riley
Annabelle Ross
Zelda Shelton
William C Smith
Kenneth Tucker
Thomas Tucker
Eloise Uggams
Charles Welch
Musa Williams
6 of these 41 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 35 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.