Theatre Register

Tobacco Road, 1943

Shows · Ritz Theatre, 1943

Revival BroadwayRitz Theatre 66 performances

The run closed October 30, 1943

Opened
September 4, 1943
Closed
October 30, 1943
Performances
66
Previews
Theatre
Ritz Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 295th 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.
1942 Forrest Theatre Return-Engagement 34 perf.
1950 48th Street Theatre Revival · Evelyn Ellis 7 perf.

Who was in it11 named

Lillian Ardell
John Barton
Dan Danton
Barbara Joyce
Michael King
Sara Perry
Vinnie Phillips
Luciel Richards
Kim Spalding
Fred Sutton
Edwin Walter

0 of these 11 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 11 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
Anthony Brown
Producer
Jack Kirkland

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 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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