Theatre Register

The Three Sisters, 1939

Shows · Longacre Theatre, 1939

Revival BroadwayLongacre Theatre 9 performances

The run closed October 21, 1939

Opened
October 14, 1939
Closed
October 21, 1939
Performances
9
Previews
Theatre
Longacre Theatre

Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 1,007th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Three Sisters 9 more that season

1923 Jolsons 59th Street Theatre Original 10 perf.
1926 Civic Repertory Theatre Revival · Eva Le Gallienne 39 perf.
1942 Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival 123 perf.
1964 Morosco Theatre Revival · Lee Strasberg 119 perf.
1969 Anta Playhouse Revival · William Ball 11 perf.
1973 Billy Rose Theatre Revival · Boris Tumarin 7 perf.
1975 Harkness Theatre Return-Engagement · Boris Tumarin 7 perf.
1996 Lunt Fontanne Theatre Revival · Galina Volchek 5 perf.
1997 Criterion Center Stage Right Revival · Scott Elliott 61 perf.

Who was in it15 named

Robert Allen
John Boruff
George Cotton
Hume Cronyn
Katherine Emery
Ann Garrett
Carl Gose
Jabez Gray
Maurice Manson
Dorothy Mathews
Anne Revere
Thomas Speidel
Shepperd Strudwick
Alexandra Taran
Helen Wynn

0 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 15 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

Producer
The Surrey Theatre (under the sponsorship of Dwight Deere Wiman)

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 Three Sisters at all.
  • No director named.
  • No show page for The Three Sisters. 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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