The run closed May 15, 1937
- Opened
- January 7, 1937
- Closed
- May 15, 1937
- Performances
- 153
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Manhattan Opera House
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 170th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it135 named
Mr Adams
Charles Adler
Maia Airoff
Herbert Alani
Antoinette Allen
Martin Alsop
Felix Arndt
Leslie Austen
Fred Barrie
Michael Bataeff
Robert Bentley
Miss Bernbaum
Abner Biberman
Ida Bildner
Anthony Blair
Leila Bliss
Miss Boone
Charles Bowden
Sophie Brent
Mr Brock
Mr Brooke
Mr Budd
Mr Burns
Miss Castle
Albert Cazentre
Bennett Challis
Al Clifford
Miss Coates
Miss Cooper
Noel Cravat
Lizzie Cubitt
Lola Curtiss
Ben Cutler
Eva Dainova
Henry Day
Marguerite de Anquera
Roger de Koven
Olive Deering
Miss Druce
Walter Elliott
Blanche Evan
Edward Fisher
Jules Flier
Carl Formes
Elizabeth Friend
Walter Gilbert
Samuel Goldenberg
Anita Gorin
Marie Guttman
Charles Hale
Harry Hamill
Paul Hammond
Robert Harrison
Miss Heller
Miss Hellman
Frances Hellman
Charles Homer
William Howell
Carroll Howes
Ralph Jameson
Janet Janov
Harold Johnsrud
Starr West Jones
Edward Kane
Hal Kingsley
Anya Kubert
Bertha Kunz Baker
David Kurlan
Alexander Lazuk
Paul Leon
David A Leonard
Miss Lester
Ruth Virginia Lewis
Lil Liandre
Lou Lief
Betty Lind
Baruch Lumet
Miss Lyons
Joseph Macauley
Paul Marion
Leonard Mence
Florence Meyer
Raymond Miller
William M Miller
Tommy Mott
Victorie Moussaieff
Ruth Nisenson
Eva Ortman
Sarah Osnath Halevy
Doris Ostroff
Anna Paduit
Mary Perrine
Miss Petcheski
Rosamond Pinchot
Miss Quimby
Cassius C Quimby
Miss Reilly Dewey
Miss Romaine
Ruth Ross
Herbert Rudley
Lucien Rutman
Miss Saunders
Angela Schopp
Mark Schweid
Blake Scott
Eleanor Searle
Ethel Selwyn
Ann Seranne
Sylvia Shane
Marian Siwek
James Spivak
Harold Sternberg
Sam Sternberg
Ruth Stromberg
Gustav Stryker
Lydia Tarnova
Molly Taylor
Myron Taylor
Sol Tisman
Maxine Trevor
John Uppman
Dickie van Patten
Edward Vermonti
Earl Weatherford
Miss Woodfin
10 of these 135 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 125 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
- Max Reinhardt
- Choreographer
- Benjamin Zemach
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.
Around this production
The Eternal Road may refer to: The Eternal Road (opera), opera by Kurt Weill The Eternal Road, novel by Antti Tuuri The Eternal Road (film), 2017 Finnish drama film based on the novel
- Both drew musically on their Jewish heritage in such large-scale works as Weill’s Biblical epic, The Eternal Road (1937), and Bernstein’s Third Symphony (‘Kaddish’), Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 252
- Smith’s use of “musical comedy” as his portmanteau term for everything from revue to operetta; nowadays, writers prefer the more neutral “musical” to avoid favoring, say, Rodgers and Hart over Stephen Sondheim. Smith makes a readable guide, and he seems to have seen everything that played in his lifetime. However, his… Anything Goes A History of American Musical Theatre Ethan Mordden, p. 357
- A corporal in the U.S. Army, Barclift’s earliest dancing credits included The Eternal Road (1937), Right This Way (1938) and Kurt Weill’s Lady in the Dark (1941); he later choreographed Irving Berlin’s This is the Army (1942) and the Orson Welles–Cole Porter extravaganza Around the World (1946). The Letters of Cole Porter Cole Porter Editor Cliff Eisen Editor Dominic Mchugh , p. 181
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
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 Eternal Road at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.