The run closed August 29, 1931
- Opened
- February 26, 1930
- Closed
- August 29, 1931
- Performances
- 640
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 11th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Green Pastures 2 more that season
| 1935 | 44th Street Theatre Revival | 71 perf. |
| 1951 | Broadway Theatre Revival · Marc Connelly | 44 perf. |
Who was in it94 named
Gerome Addison
Freddie Archibald
Marguerite Avery
Earl Bowie
Margery Bumgardner
Philistine Bumgardner
Edgar Burks
Elsie Byrd
Joe Byrd
Josephine Byrd
Geneva Bythewood
Reginald Bythewood
Wilbur Cohen Jr
Billy Cumby
Ruby Davis
Willmay Davis
Gertrude de Verney
Alicia Escamilla
Amy Escamilla
Alonzo Fenderson
Reginald Fenderson
Florence Fields
Arthur Foster
Harold Foster
Oliver Foster
Anna Mae Fritz
Mercedes Gilbert
Geraldine Gooding
Edna Mae Harris
Mattie Harris
Richard B Harrison
Mary Ella Hart
Colington Hayes
Daniel L Haynes
Adolph Henderson
Richard Henderson
Wesley Hill
Walter Hilliard
Frank Horace
Charlotte Junius
Louis Kelsey
Tom Lee
Viola Lewis
Fredia Longshaw
Joe Loomis
Ruthena Matson
Willie Mays
William Mcfarland
Cecil Mcnair
Walter Meadows
Viola Mickens
Jay Mondaaye
Charles H Moore
Stanleigh Morrell
Thula Oritz
Massie Patterson
Verdon Perdue
Inez Persand
Arthur Porter
Benjamin John Ragsdale
George Randol
Mckinley Reeves
Emory Richardson
Jazzlips Richardson Jr
Tommy Russell
Ivan Sharp
Jesse A Shipp
Carl Shorter
Frances Smith
Susie Sutton
Dinks Thomas
Edna Thrower
Margerette Thrower
Homer Tutt
Constance van Dyke
Lou Vernon
John Warner
Marie Warren
Benveneta Washington
Howard Washington
Walter Whitfield
Tutt Whitney
D K Williams
Milton J Williams
Inez Richardson Wilson
Leona Winkler
Charles Winter Wood
Bertha Wright
Ruth Carl
Sam Davis
Mabel Ridley
3 of these 94 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 91 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
- Laurence Rivers, Inc.
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 Green Pastures at all.
- No director named.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.