Theatre Register

Watch on the Rhine, 1941

Shows · Martin Beck Theatre, 1941

Original BroadwayAl Hirschfeld Theatre 378 performances

The run closed February 21, 1942

Opened
April 1, 1941
Closed
February 21, 1942
Performances
378
Previews
Theatre
Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 82nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Watch on the Rhine 1 more that season

1980 John Golden Theatre Revival · Arvin Brown 36 perf.

Who was in it11 named

Anne Blyth
Mady Christians
George Coulouris
Peter Fernandez
Eda Heinemann
John Lodge
Eric Roberts
Helen Trenholme
Lucile Watson
Frank Wilson

1 of these 11 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 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
Herman Shumlin

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 Watch on the Rhine at all.
  • No director named.
  • No show page for Watch on the Rhine. 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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