Productions3 on Broadway
| 1930 | Mansfield Theatre Original. February 26, 1930 · predates this show | 640 performances |
| 1935 | 44th Street Theatre Revival. February 26, 1935 · predates this show | 71 performances |
| 1951 | Broadway Theatre Revival. March 15, 1951 · Marc Connelly | 44 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 2 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals Dramatists Play Service | available |
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In the literature23 passages
The play with music premiered at the Mansfield Theatre on February 26, 1930, to raves from all the critics (Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times said it was “the divine comedy of the modern theatre” and Robert Littell in the New York World found it one of the “finest” plays of the generation). The work played for 640… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p134
a revival of Marc Connelly's Pulitzer Prize play The Green Pastures arrived in 1951, but lasted only 44 more performances. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p209
Above: Richard B. Harrison as "De Lawd" and Edna M. Harris as a "sinner" in the classic Marc Connelly play. The Green Pastures (1930). book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p241
The theater’s next show, The Green Pastures (2/26/30; 640 performances), was Marc Connelly’s adaptation of Roark Bradford’s Ol’ Man Adam an’ His Chillun, a retelling of Old Testament stories. Connelly won the Pulitzer prize for his efforts. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p109
The work received raves from the critics and at 640 performances became one of the longest-running shows of the era; it won the Pulitzer Prize; toured the country and reportedly chalked up 927 showings; a Broadway revival opened in 1935 (see entry); a 1936 film version was released by Warner Brothers (the DVD was issue… book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p43
The revue kidded recent shows such as Green Pastures and The Last Mile, and the novel All Quiet on the Western Front (here All Quiet on the Darkest Front). There were sketches and songs about life on the Mississippi levee and Aunt Jemima’s day in divorce court, a mini-minstrel show in which Ethel Waters was the interlo… book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p93
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