Theatre Register

The Cherry Orchard, 1923

Shows · Jolsons 59th Street Theatre, 1923

Original BroadwayJolsons 59th Street Theatre18 performances

The run closed March 30, 1923

Opened
January 22, 1923
Closed
March 30, 1923
Performances
18
Previews
Theatre
Jolsons 59th Street Theatre

Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 1,558th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Cherry Orchard 10 more that season

1924 Jolsons 59th Street Theatre Return-Engagement 8 perf.
1928 Bijou Theatre Revival 5 perf.
1929 Civic Repertory Theatre Revival · Eva Le Gallienne 14 perf.
1933 New Amsterdam Theatre Revival 30 perf.
1944 National Theatre Revival · Eva Le Gallienne 96 perf.
1968 Lyceum Theatre Revival · Jack O'Brien 38 perf.
1970 Anta Playhouse Revival · John Fernald 5 perf.
1977 Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Andrei Serban 62 perf.
1997 Martin Beck Theatre Revival · Galina Volchek 12 perf.
2016 American Airlines Theatre Revival · Simon Godwin 57 perf.

Who was in it15 named

Nikolai Alexandroff
Peter Baksheieff
Alexei Bondirieff
Lyoff Bulgakoff
Varvara Bulgakova
Vladimir Gribunin
Olga Knipper Tchekhova
Ivan Lazarieff
Vassily Luzhsky
Ivan Moskvin
Vera Pashennaya
Nikolai Podgorny
Constantin Stanislavsky
Alla Tarasova
Maria Uspenskaya

0 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 15 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
F. Ray Comstock

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 The Cherry Orchard at all.
  • No director named.
  • No show page for The Cherry Orchard. 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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