The run closed April 21, 1951
- Opened
- March 15, 1951
- Closed
- April 21, 1951
- Performances
- 44
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadway Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 336th 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. |
| 1935 | 44th Street Theatre Revival | 71 perf. |
Who was in it61 named
William O. Davis
Pierre Dillard
William Dillard
Beatrice Edwards
Hope Foye
James Fuller
Joyce Gissentanner
Dierdre Greenway
Curtis Hawkins
Louise Hawthorne
Philip Hepburn
Phillip Hepburn
George Hill
Alma L Hubbard
Milroy Ingram
Yvonne Jiggets
Oci Johnson
Alonzo Jones
Jumel Jones
Avon Long
John Marriott
Tina Marshall
William Marshall
Willie Mays
William Mcdaniel
Robert Mcferrin
Courtenaye Olden
Louise Parker
Madeline Preston
Van Prince
Ethel Purnello
John Rainey
John H Rainey
Anna Mae Richardson
George Royston
Randolph Sawyer
Marcia Titus
Robert Titus
William Veasey
Margaret Williams
George O Willis
Beecher Wilson
Mary Young
30 of these 61 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 31 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
- Marc Connelly
- Producer
- The Wigreen Company in association with Harry Fromkes
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
Green Pastures Sept 17 Winter Garden March 3 The Best Musicals From Show Boat To A Chorus Line By Arthur Jackson Foreword By , p. 161
the play was of “surpassing beauty” and included “magnificent strokes of imaginative comedy” that made it a “rare piece of work.
J. Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 43Robert Benchley in the New Yorker told his readers that “never” in the theatre had they “seen anything like The Green Pastures” and they were “not likely to see anything like it again.” He warned them that if they didn’t “see it now,” they didn’t “deserve to.”
Speaker not recorded. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 43the play was of “surpassing beauty” and included “magnificent strokes of imaginative comedy” that made it a “rare piece of work.
J. Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 43- The play with music premiered at the Mansfield Theatre on February 26, 1930, to raves from all the critics (Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times said it was “the divine comedy of the modern theatre” and Robert Littell in the New York World found it one of the “finest” plays of the generation). The work played for 640… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 134
- a revival of Marc Connelly's Pulitzer Prize play The Green Pastures arrived in 1951, but lasted only 44 more performances. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 209
- Above: Richard B. Harrison as "De Lawd" and Edna M. Harris as a "sinner" in the classic Marc Connelly play. The Green Pastures (1930). At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 241
- The theater’s next show, The Green Pastures (2/26/30; 640 performances), was Marc Connelly’s adaptation of Roark Bradford’s Ol’ Man Adam an’ His Chillun, a retelling of Old Testament stories. Connelly won the Pulitzer prize for his efforts. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 109
- The work received raves from the critics and at 640 performances became one of the longest-running shows of the era; it won the Pulitzer Prize; toured the country and reportedly chalked up 927 showings; a Broadway revival opened in 1935 (see entry); a 1936 film version was released by Warner Brothers (the DVD was issue… The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 43
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 Green Pastures at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.