The run closed December 9, 1939
- Opened
- November 29, 1939
- Closed
- December 9, 1939
- Performances
- 13
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Center Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 905th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it106 named
Bill Bailey
Frank Bell
Hilda Bess
Richard Bess
Al Bledger
Joyce Boyd
Troy Brown
Alice Coles
Thomas Coley
Clemie Collinwood
Muriel Cook
Boyd Crawford
Wilda Crawford
Dorothy Dandridge
Etta Dandridge
Vivian Dandridge
The Dandridge Sisters
Jean Daniels
Joseph Daniels
Gerald de la Fontaine
The Deep River Boys
Harry Douglas
William Downes
Elizabeth Dozier
Laura Duncan
Eadie Edwards
Beatrice Elam
Arlyne Evans
Hazel Ferguson
Anthony Fleming
Charles Ford
Ruth Ford
Celestine Fuller
Vernon Gardner
John Garth Iii
Herman Green
George Greenridge
Ethel Harper
Raymond Harrison
Ersalyn Hayes
Juan Hernandez
Joseph Holland
Edith Hurd
Joyce James
Lonnie Jenkins
Anne Johnson
Clifford E Johnson
Dottiemae Johnson
Irene Johnson
King Johnson
Frances Jones
Leroy Jones
Lawaune Kennard
Catheryn Laughlin
Cleo Law
George Lawson
George le Soir
Tommy Lee
Martin Logan
Lyn Murray Singers
Eleanor Lynn
Jackie Mabley
Gladys Madden
Frank Manning
Emmet Matthews
Emily Mccloud
Dorothy Mcguire
Butterfly Mcqueen
Lucille Middleton
Norma Miller
Wihelmina Moore
Nicodemus
George W Nixon
Josephine Ortego
James Outlaw
Sunny Payne
Alberta Perkins
Kelsey Pharr
Samuel Pierce
Lora Pierre
Oscar Polk
Belle Powell
Muriel Rahn
The Rhythmettes
Ruby Richards
Priscilla Richshard
Joe Riddick
Elwood Robinson
Raymond Saunders
Winnie Scott
Ollie Simmons
James Sparks
Lloyd Storey
Maxine Sullivan
Herbert Sumpter
Sylvester Taylor
Naomi Waller
Edward Ware
Thomas Washington
Billy Williams
Bernice Willis
Charles Willis
Randolph Willis
Carol Wright
Jessie Zachary
1 of these 106 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 105 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
- Philip Loeb
- Producer
- Erik Charell
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 Swingin' The Dream at all.
- No show page for Swingin' The Dream. 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.