Theatre Register

The Strings, My Lord, Are False, 1942

Shows · Royale Theatre, 1942

Original BroadwayBernard B. Jacobs Theatre 15 performances

The run closed May 30, 1942

Opened
May 19, 1942
Closed
May 30, 1942
Performances
15
Previews
Theatre
Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 563rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it21 named

Frances Bavier
Ralph Cullinan
Constance Dowling
Reynolds Evans
Ruth Gordon
Margot Grahame
Walter Hampden
Hurd Hatfield
Colin Keith Johnston
Will Lee
Sherman Macgregor
Alice Mackenzie
John Mckee
Anna Minot
Gordon Nelson
Hale Norcross
Joan H Shepard
Tom Tully
Ruth Vivian

2 of these 21 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 — 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
Elia Kazan
Producer
Edward Choate

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 Strings, My Lord, Are False at all.
  • No show page for The Strings, My Lord, Are False. 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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