Theatre Register

The Trojan Women, 1941

Shows · Cort Theatre, 1941

Original BroadwayJames Earl Jones Theatre 1 performances

The run closed April 8, 1941

Opened
April 8, 1941
Closed
April 8, 1941
Performances
1
Previews
Theatre
James Earl Jones Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 868th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it59 named

Grace Albert
James Allison
Shifrah Baraks
Virginia Barton
Emily H Beck
Herman Belmonte
Lillian Bennett
Sally Billings
Henrietta Blattner
Lachland Campbell
Jerry Carr
Grace Coppin
Zamah Cunningham
Ruth Darson
Dorothy Eaton
Carter Farriss
Harry Fleer
Charles Francis
Gordon Gaines
Fraye Gilbert
Paul Kirk Giles
Katheryn Grill
Allan Handley
Alice Hooke
Mary Howes
Edna James
Dorothy Johnson
Roy Johnston
Edgar Kent
Michael Kosak
Lorna Lynn
John Macquade
Ruth Mammil
Emily Marsh
Ellen Merrill
Mary M Merrill
Cameron Mitchell
Angel Morgensen
Marion Newberry
Lincoln Newfield
William Nicols
Marion Nobel
Sandra Nova
Barna Ostertag
Elaine Perry
Paul Reed
Joanna Roos
Elinor Rutherford
Allen Stewart
Marguerite Ware
Dame May Whitty
Florence Williams
Roy Williams
Perry Wilson
Jackson Wright

4 of these 59 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 55 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
Margaret Webster
Producer
The Experimental Theatre, Inc.

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 Trojan Women at all.
  • No show page for The Trojan Women. 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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