Theatre Register

The Cherry Orchard, 1944

Shows · National Theatre, 1944

Revival BroadwayNederlander Theatre 96 performances

The run closed April 15, 1944

Opened
January 25, 1944
Closed
April 15, 1944
Performances
96
Previews
Theatre
Nederlander Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 240th 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

1923 Jolsons 59th Street Theatre Original 18 perf.
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.
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 it20 named

Bruce Adams
A G Andrews
John Melvin Bleifer
Virginia Campbell
Katherine Emery
H Etienne
Eduardo Franz
Michael Gray
Lois Hall
Lois Holmes
Jack Lynds
Beatrice Manley
Rex O Malley
Stanley Phillips
Carl Benton Reid
Leona Roberts
Joseph Schildkraut
Annette Sorell

2 of these 20 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 18 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
Eva Le Gallienne
Producer
Carly Wharton

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 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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