Theatre Register

Rhapsody in Black, 1931

Shows · Sam H Harris Theatre, 1931

Original BroadwaySam H Harris Theatre80 performances

The run closed July 11, 1931

Opened
May 4, 1931
Closed
July 11, 1931
Performances
80
Previews
Theatre
Sam H Harris Theatre

Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 319th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it15 named

Ernest Allen
Avis Andrews
Berry Brothers
Cecil Mack S Choir
Dennis Dean
Sam H Gray
Blue Mcallister
Al Moore
Pike Davis Orchestra
Eddie Rector
Joseph Steel
Eloise Uggams
Valaida

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

Producer
Blackbirds Productions, Inc.

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 Rhapsody in Black at all.
  • No director named.
  • No show page for Rhapsody in Black. 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.

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