Awake and Sing!, 1938

The run closed April 9, 1939

Opened

December 22, 1938

Closed

April 9, 1939

Performances

95

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Dalys 63rd Street Theatre

Of the 1,389 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and carry a performance count, this is the 283rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Awake and Sing! 3 more that season

1935	Belasco Theatre Original · Harold Clurman	184 perf.
1984	Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Theodore Mann	61 perf.
2006	Belasco Theatre Revival · Bartlett Sher	80 perf.

Who was in it9 named

Emilie Adler
Louis Brandt
Louis Coppersmith
Morris Dorf
Gustave Schact
Harold Schutzman
Lyda Slava
Jack Tammy
Isadore Vernick

0 of these 9 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 9 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

Director

Jacob Mestel

Producer

Federal Theatre Project of The WPA

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.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for Awake and Sing! at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.