The run closed October 1, 1938
- Opened
- January 26, 1938
- Closed
- October 1, 1938
- Performances
- 274
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- John Golden Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 59th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it10 named
Cedric Hardwicke
Sara Allgood
Julie Haydon
Gerald Buckley
Valerie Cossart
Len Doyle
Lloyd Gough
John L Kearney
Almira Sessions
Henry Sothern
0 of these 10 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 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
- Peter Godfrey
- Producer
- Eddie Dowling
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 Shadow and Substance at all.
- No show page for Shadow and Substance. 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.