Theatre Register

The Corn Is Green, 1943

Shows · Martin Beck Theatre, 1943

Return-Engagement BroadwayAl Hirschfeld Theatre 56 performances

The run closed June 19, 1943

Opened
May 3, 1943
Closed
June 19, 1943
Performances
56
Previews
Theatre
Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 316th 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

1940 National Theatre Original 477 perf.
1950 City Center Revival · Gwilym Williams 16 perf.
1983 Lunt Fontanne Theatre Revival · Vivian Matalon 32 perf.

Who was in it21 named

Ethel Barrymore
George Bleasdale
Josephine Capel
Julia Carlson
Kenneth Clarke
Betty Conibear
Peter Harris
Gwyneth Hughes
Julia Knox
Eva Leonard Boyne
Esther Mitchell
Patrick O Connor
Gene Ross
Lewis L Russell
Jane van Duser
Richard Waring
Gwendoline Williams
Tom E Williams
J P Wilson
Perry Wilson

1 of these 21 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 20 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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