Louis Sharp

On stage 10 productions, 11 years

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.
1940	Cabin In The Sky Martin Beck Theatre · Original · directed by George Balanchine, Albert Lewis	156 perf.
1940	Mamba's Daughters Broadway Theatre · Return-Engagement	17 perf.
1943	Run, Little Chillun Hudson Theatre · Revival · directed by Clarence Muse	16 perf.
1943	South Pacific Cort Theatre · Original · directed by Lee Strasberg	5 perf.
1946	Lysistrata Belasco Theatre · Revival · directed by Felicia Sorel	4 perf.
1946	St. Louis Woman Martin Beck Theatre · Original · directed by Rouben Mamoulian	113 perf.
1947	Finian’s Rainbow 46th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Bretaigne Windust	725 perf.
1948	Set My People Free Hudson Theatre · Original · directed by Martin Ritt	29 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

Rex Ingram	4 productions
Canada Lee	4 productions
Theodore Hines	3 productions
Olive Ball	3 productions
Maurice Ellis	3 productions
J. Louis Johnson	3 productions
Frank Green	3 productions
Archie Savage	3 productions
Zola King	2 productions
Wilson Bradley	2 productions
William Mcdaniel	2 productions
Wardell Saunders	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. 8 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.