Theatre Register

The Petrified Forest, 1943

Shows ยท New Amsterdam Roof, 1943

Revival BroadwayNew Amsterdam Roof8 performances

The run closed November 6, 1943

Opened
November 1, 1943
Closed
November 6, 1943
Performances
8
Previews
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Theatre
New Amsterdam Roof

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 640th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Petrified Forest 1 more that season

1935 Broadhurst Theatre Original 197 perf.

Who was in it19 named

Natalie Benisch
Jack Bittner
Grover Burgess
Frederic Cornell
William Forester
Barbara Joyce
Robert J Lance
William Marceau
E G Marshall
John Mcquade
John Mcquaden
H Randolph Nash
Wendell K Phillips
Clark Poth
Charlotte Rogers
Fred Spelvin
George Spelvin
Slim Thompson
William Toubin

0 of these 19 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 19 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name โ€” 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
David Alexander
Producer
Mary Elizabeth Sherwood

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 Petrified Forest at all.
  • No show page for The Petrified Forest. 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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