The Milky Way, 1943

The run closed June 20, 1943

Opened

June 9, 1943

Closed

June 20, 1943

Performances

16

Previews

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Theatre

Windsor Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 534th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Milky Way 1 more that season

Who was in it9 named

Joey Faye1909–1997

Lewis Charles
Helen Gillette
Bert Jeter
Max Leavitt
Lila Lee
Stanley Phillips
Marshall Reid
Jerry Sylvon

1 of these 9 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 8 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

Rodney Hale

Producer

Lucia Victor

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 Milky Way at all.
• No show page for The Milky Way. 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.