Theatre Register

The Women, 1936

Shows · Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 1936

Original BroadwayEthel Barrymore Theatre 657 performances

The run closed July 9, 1938

Opened
December 26, 1936
Closed
July 9, 1938
Performances
657
Previews
Theatre
Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 10th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Women 2 more that season

1973 46th Street Theatre Revival · Morton Da Costa 63 perf.
2001 American Airlines Theatre Revival · Scott Elliott 77 perf.

Who was in it50 named

Charita Bauer
Eloise Bennett
Eileen Burns
Jessie Busley
Mary Cecil
Virgilia Chew
Beatrice Cole
Doris Day
Lucille Fenton
Arlene Francis
Ruth Hammond
Joy Hathaway
Anne Hunter
Betty Lawford
Adrienne Marden
Jane Moore
Mary Murray
Lillian Norton
Phyllis Povah
Jean Rodney
Jane Seymour
Mary Stuart
Ann Teeman
Martina Thomas
Beryl Wallace
Ann Watson
Marjorie Wood
Jane Amar
Alice Buchanan
Claire Carleton
Helen Carrington
Jeanne Cooley
Marjorie Dalton
Mary Gordon
Edith Gresham
Gladys Griswold
Eve Lynn
Enid Markey
Laura Pierpont
Ethel Remey
Tanya Sanina
Jacqueline Susann
June Webster
Marion Weeks

6 of these 50 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 44 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
Robert B. Sinclair
Producer
Max Gordon

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 Women at all.
  • No show page for The 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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