The run closed March 13, 1948
- Opened
- February 20, 1948
- Closed
- March 13, 1948
- Performances
- 26
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Nederlander Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 456th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Tonight at 8:30 2 more that season
| 1936 | National Theatre Original | 118 perf. |
| 1967 | Anta Playhouse Revival · G. Wood | 5 perf. |
Who was in it9 named
Sarah Burton
Booth Colman
Valerie Cossart
Norah Howard
Graham Payn
Philip Tonge
Rhoderick Walker
2 of these 9 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 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
- Richard Barstow
- Producer
- Homer Curran
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 Tonight at 8:30 at all.
- No show page for Tonight at 8:30. 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.