Battle Hymn, 1936

The run closed July 25, 1936

Opened

May 22, 1936

Closed

July 25, 1936

Performances

72

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Experimental Theatre

Of the 1,389 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and carry a performance count, this is the 349th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it63 named

Katherine Arden
Mony Ash
Donald Barrie
Harry Bonnick
William Burbridge
Grover Burgess
Horace Casselberry
Margery Christian
Michael Cisney
Hattie Cline
Rose Cooper
James J Coyle
Ora Day
Agnes Delano
Ruth Forst
Agnes Gildea
Georgia Graham
R Henry Handon
Anthony Heathe
Lee Hillery
Philip Hilton
Richard Huett
Leslie Hunt
Lada Ladova
Lucia Lull
Gita Lurie
Alan Macateer
Lida Macmillan
Manny Manisoff
Ruth Marcusson
Grant Mitchell
Mary Morrison
David Palmer
Curtis Parker
Lewis Paul
Ann Peters
Brandt Peters
Joseph Pevney
Robin Radin
Cortell Ramey
Hilda Reis
Amelia Romano
Herbert Rudley
Edward Segal
Arthur W Shackett
Alfreda Sill
Arthur Spencer
Arthur Spenser
Gerald Stone
Laura Strassman
Charles P Thompson
William Triest
Sidney Vereker
Helen Wainright
George Ward
Jeffrey Warnick
Florence Warren
Ringgold Watts
Peter White
George Whittington
Aldeah Wise
Philip Woodward
George Yessner

0 of these 63 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 63 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

Vincent Sherman

Choreographer

Vincent Sherman

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 Battle Hymn at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.