The run closed April 27, 1935
- Opened
- February 26, 1935
- Closed
- April 27, 1935
- Performances
- 71
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- 44th Street Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 360th 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
| 1930 | Mansfield Theatre Original | 640 perf. |
| 1951 | Broadway Theatre Revival · Marc Connelly | 44 perf. |
Who was in it112 named
Jerome Addison
Mildred Allison
Laura Anderson
Myrtle Anderson
Freddie Archibald
Olive Ball
Marie Benton
Henry Blake
Franklin Brown
George Brown
Ruth Carl
George Carroll
Allen Charles
John Charles
Wilbur Cohen Jr
Alice Cottingham
Billy Cumby
Beatrice Davis
Ruby Davis
Gertrude de Verney
Robert Ecton
Richard Emory
Reginald Fenderson
William Fenton
Florence Fields
Mary Frances
Anna Mae Fritz
Alice Geneva
Mercedes Gilbert
Geraldine Gooding
Earl Gough
Edna Mae Harris
Mattie Harris
Richard B Harrison
Daniel L Haynes
Richard Henderson
T Lloyd Hickman
Charles Hill
Harold Hines
Randall Homer
Frank Horace
Harriet Hoyt
Alma L Hubbard
Nell Hunter
Charles Ivan
Roland Jones
Florence Lee
Carrington Lewis
Theon Lewis
J E Lightfoot
James Lindsay
Jack Mann
Willis Martin
Willie Mays
John Mcallister
William Mcfarland
Roy Mckinley
Morris Mckinney
Walter Meadows
Viola Mickens
George Milton
Charles H Moore
James Morrison
Willis Morton
Willis Norton
Massie Patterson
Oscar Polk
Arthur Porter
Martin Quinn
Benjamin John Ragsdale
George Randol
Mckinley Reeves
Mckinney Reeves
Emory Richardson
Jazzlips Richardson
Mabel Ridley
Thomas Russell
Ivan Sharp
Carl Shorter
D Jay Sidney
Nonie Simmons
Augustus Simons
Frances Smith
Alice Snyder
Janet Stevens
Susie Sutton
Harry Thompson
J Homer Tutt
Constance van Dyke
Lloyd Warren
Marie Warren
Anna Washington
Benveneta Washington
Booker T Washington Jr
Irene Watts
Ashley Webb
Walter Whitfield
Dow K Williams
Milton J Williams
Rudolph Williams
Frank Wilson
Gertrude Wilson
Leona Winkler
Charles Winter Wood
Bertha Wright
Edgar Yancey
J Homer
Billie Richards
Dinks Thomas
Edward Yancey
2 of these 112 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 110 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.