The run closed July 8, 1939
- Opened
- April 13, 1938
- Closed
- July 8, 1939
- Performances
- 538
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 13th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it33 named
Joyce Arling
Ralph Bell
Jack Byrne
James Corner
Betty Field
Blaine Fillmore
Vaughan Glaser
Teresa Keane
Marguerite Lodge
Kay Loring
Ruth Matteson
Butterfly Mcqueen
William Mendrek
Mitzi Miller
Elena Salvatore
Maidel Turner
Isla Vaile
Judith Ann Abbott
Sarah Burton
Irving Morrow
Phyllis Thaxter
Fleming Ward
Fred Clark
Fraye Gilbert
Ellen Hall
Inge Hardison
Anne Lincoln
Marion Sweet
Norman Williams
4 of these 33 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 29 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
- George Abbott
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 What a Life at all.
- No director named.
- No show page for What a Life. 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.