Theatre Register

Tobacco Road, 1942

Shows · Forrest Theatre, 1942

Return-Engagement BroadwayEugene O'Neill Theatre 34 performances

The run closed October 3, 1942

Opened
September 5, 1942
Closed
October 3, 1942
Performances
34
Previews
Theatre
Eugene O'Neill Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 403rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Tobacco Road 3 more that season

1933 Theatre Masque Original 3,182 perf.
1943 Ritz Theatre Revival · Anthony Brown 66 perf.
1950 48th Street Theatre Revival · Evelyn Ellis 7 perf.

Who was in it19 named

Lillian Ardell
John Barton
Sheila Brent
Norman Budd
Sondra Johnson
Sara Perry
Vinnie Phillips
Fred Sutton
Harry Townes
Edwin Walter
Ellen Andrews
William Bishop
Ashley Cooper
Kate Morgan
Robert Rose
Leora Thatcher
Augusta Wallace

2 of these 19 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 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
Anthony Brown

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 Tobacco Road at all.
  • No director named.
  • No show page for Tobacco Road. 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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