Theatre Register

The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, 1935

Shows · Guild Theatre, 1935

Original BroadwayAugust Wilson Theatre 40 performances

The run dates incomplete

Opened
February 18, 1935
Closed
Performances
40
Previews
Theatre
August Wilson Theatre

Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 505th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.

Who was in it14 named

Patricia Calvert
Franklin Gray
Louis Hector
Leon Janney
Alma Lloyd
Reginald Malcolm
Mckay Morris
Alla Nazimova
Rex O Malley
Lionel Pape
Viola Roache
Rita Vale

2 of these 14 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 12 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
Harry Wagstaff Gribble
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 Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles at all.
  • When it closed.
  • No show page for The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles. 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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