Theatre Register

The Three Sisters, 1942

Shows · Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 1942

Revival BroadwayEthel Barrymore Theatre 123 performances

The run closed April 3, 1943

Opened
December 21, 1942
Closed
April 3, 1943
Performances
123
Previews
Theatre
Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 201st 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.
1939 Longacre Theatre Revival 9 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 it17 named

Judith Anderson
Stanley Bell
Alice Belmore Cliffe
Patricia Calvert
Arthur Chatterton
Walter Craig
Kirk Douglas
Eric Dressler
Ruth Gordon
Edmund Gwenn
Alexander Knox
Tom Mcdermott
Mckay Morris
Gertrude Musgrove
Marie Paxton

2 of these 17 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
Katharine Cornell

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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