J. Louis Johnson

On stage 10 productions, 14 years

1926	Lulu Belle Belasco Theatre · Original	461 perf.
1927	Goat Alley Princess Theatre · Revival · directed by Egon Brecher	13 perf.
1927	Show Boat Ziegfeld Theatre · Original · directed by Zeke Colvan	572 perf.
1931	Sugar Hill Forrest Theatre · Original	11 perf.
1932	Show Boat Casino Theatre · Revival	180 perf.
1936	Come Angel Band 46th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Melville Burke	2 perf.
1937	The Case of Philip Lawrence Lafayette Theatre · Original · directed by J. A. Smith	55 perf.
1938	Haiti Lafayette Theatre · Original · directed by Maurice Clark	168 perf.
1939	Susanna, Don't You Cry Martin Beck Theatre · Original · directed by José Ruben	5 perf.
1940	Cabin In The Sky Martin Beck Theatre · Original · directed by George Balanchine, Albert Lewis	156 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in. That is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once12 names

Maurice Ellis	3 productions
Louis Sharp	3 productions
Zola King	2 productions
Thomas Gunn	2 productions
Tess Gardella	2 productions
Tana Kamp	2 productions
Sammy White	2 productions
Rose Mariella	2 productions
Rex Ingram	2 productions
Phil Sheridan	2 productions
Norma Terris	2 productions
Margaret Petty	2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership. A long-running company puts the same forty people together every night, but it is where one would start looking. 6 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

What this page does not know

• What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
• Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
• Any biography.
• Any portrait. Most people in this catalogue don't have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
• Which of the credits above the roles on this record () apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.