Theatre Register

Run, Little Chillun, 1943

Shows · Hudson Theatre, 1943

Revival BroadwayHudson Theatre 16 performances

The run closed August 26, 1943

Opened
August 11, 1943
Closed
August 26, 1943
Performances
16
Previews
Theatre
Hudson Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 534th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Run, Little Chillun 1 more that season

1933 Lyric Theatre Original · Frank Merlin 126 perf.

Who was in it62 named

John Alele
Roger Alford
Myrtle Anderson
Viola Anderson
Olive Ball
Service Bell
Alfred Bledger
Howard Carter
Maggie Carter
Thornton Cherokee
Sylvanna Cole
Ruth Collins
Roxie Foster
Awilda Frazier
Olive Gordon
Frank Green
Bessie Guy
Clarence Harris
Edna Mae Harris
Mabel Hart
Robert Harvey
Adolph Henderson
Elijah Hodges
Charles Holland
Martin James
James Jones
Lulu B King
Rosalie King
Okey Lawson
Fredye Marshall
Means Mases
Violet Mcdowell
Norma Miller
Walter Mosby
Joseph A Noble
Bill O Neil
Caleb Peterson
Nyoka Pleasant
Bertha Powell
Geraldine Prillerman
James Flash Riley
Garfield Ritter
Lillian Roberts
Edwin Roche
Norma Ross
Wardell Saunders
Louis Sharp
P Jay Sidney
Maude Simmons
Joan Smith
Randall Steplight
Andrew Taylor
Eloise Uggams
Eva Vaughan
Dorothy Williams
Enid Williams

6 of these 62 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 56 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
Clarence Muse
Choreographer
Clarence Muse
Producer
Lew Cooper

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 Run, Little Chillun at all.
  • No show page for Run, Little Chillun. 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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