Theatre Register

The Corn Is Green, 1940

Shows · National Theatre, 1940

Original BroadwayNederlander Theatre 477 performances

The run closed January 17, 1942

Opened
November 26, 1940
Closed
January 17, 1942
Performances
477
Previews
Theatre
Nederlander Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 54th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Corn Is Green 3 more that season

1943 Martin Beck Theatre Return-Engagement 56 perf.
1950 City Center Revival · Gwilym Williams 16 perf.
1983 Lunt Fontanne Theatre Revival · Vivian Matalon 32 perf.

Who was in it22 named

Ethel Barrymore
George Bleasdale
Edmond Breon
Rosalind Carter
Kenneth Clarke
Betty Conibear
Sayre Crawley
Mildred Dunnock
Gwyneth Hughes
Rosalind Ivan
Julia Knox
Thomas Lyons
Joseph Mcinerney
Terence Morgan
Harda Norman
Merritt O Duel
Charles Pursell
Amelia Romano
Thelma Schnee
Richard Waring
Gwilym Williams

1 of these 22 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 21 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
Herman Shumlin

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 Corn Is Green at all.
  • No director named.
  • No show page for The Corn Is Green. 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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