Theatre Register

The Russian People, 1942

Shows · Guild Theatre, 1942

Original BroadwayAugust Wilson Theatre 39 performances

The run closed January 31, 1943

Opened
December 29, 1942
Closed
January 31, 1943
Performances
39
Previews
Theatre
August Wilson Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 376th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it32 named

Luther Adler
Leon Ames
Rudolph Anders
Roger Beirne
Boris Belostozky
Jefferson Coates
Jon Dawson
Harold Dyrenforth
Randolph Echols
Eduardo Franz
Elisabeth Fraser
Ernest Graves
Michael Greben
Peter Hobbs
Ad Karns
Walter Kohler
David Koser
E A Krumschmidt
Harro Meller
Eleonora Mendelssohn
Anna Minot
Seymour Osborne
Leo Resnik
Lucien Arnold Ruttman
Mark Schmeid
Joseph Shattuck
Robert Simon
Michael Strong
David Tuchinoff
Victor Varconi

2 of these 32 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 30 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
Harold Clurman
Producer
The Theatre Guild

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 Russian People at all.
  • No show page for The Russian People. 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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