Theatre Register

Tobacco Road, 1950

Shows · 48th Street Theatre, 1950

Revival Broadway48th Street Theatre 7 performances

The run closed March 18, 1950

Opened
March 6, 1950
Closed
March 18, 1950
Performances
7
Previews
Theatre
48th Street Theatre

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 602nd 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.
1943 Ritz Theatre Revival · Anthony Brown 66 perf.

Who was in it10 named

Mercedes Gilbert
Estelle Hemsley
Baby Joyce
Powell Lindsay
Delores Mack
John Mark
John Tate
Cherokee Thornton
Jimmy Wright

1 of these 10 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 9 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
Evelyn Ellis
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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