The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- November 24, 1933
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 11
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Shubert Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 968th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Who was in it24 named
Walter Abel
Judith Anderson
Oliver Barbour
Mathilda Baring
C C Charles
Harry Cooke
Pierre de Ramey
Joseph Downing
William Foran
F Cliff Jewell
Moffat Johnston
Alexander Lewis
Alice Reinheart
William Shea
J Ascher Smith
Kent Smith
Ingeborg Tillisch
Juan Varro
William Wadsworth
Charles Wagenheim
Alf Weinberger
3 of these 24 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
- George Abbott
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 Drums Begin at all.
- When it closed.
- No director named.
- No show page for The Drums Begin. 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.