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.