Theatre Register

The Little Foxes, 1939

Shows · National Theatre, 1939

Original BroadwayNederlander Theatre 410 performances

The run closed February 3, 1940

Opened
February 15, 1939
Closed
February 3, 1940
Performances
410
Previews
Theatre
Nederlander Theatre

Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 22nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Little Foxes 5 more that season

1967 Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Mike Nichols 100 perf.
1981 Martin Beck Theatre Revival · Austin Pendleton 126 perf.
1982 Victoria Palace Theatre Transfer
1997 Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Jack O'Brien 57 perf.
2017 Samuel J Friedman Theatre Revival · Daniel Sullivan 87 perf.

Who was in it11 named

Tallulah Bankhead
Patricia Collinge
Frank Conroy
Lee Baker
Dan Duryea
John Marriott
Carl Benton Reid
Florence Williams
Eugenia Rawls

2 of these 11 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 9 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
Herman Shumlin

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 Little Foxes at all.
  • No director named.
  • No show page for The Little Foxes. 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.

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