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Carmen Jones, 1945

Shows · Carmen Jones · City Center, 1945

Carmen Jones
We hold no picture of this staging. This one is filed against Carmen Jones and could document any of its runs. None
Revival BroadwayCity Center 21 performances

The run dates incomplete

Opened
May 2, 1945
Closed
Unknown
Performances
21
Previews
Unknown
Theatre
City Center

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and carry a performance count, this is the 504th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

No closing date. At this distance that most likely means nobody wrote down when it ended, rather than that the run went on.

Other stagings of Carmen Jones 3 more that season

1943 Broadway Theatre Original · Hassard Short, Charles Friedman 502 perf.
1946 City Center Revival · Hassard Short 32 perf.
1992 Transfer Transfer

Who was in it25 named

Lee Allen
Ford L Buck
Edward Christopher
Robert Clarke
Ruth Crumpton
Erona Harris
Elijah Hodges
Maithe Marshall
Bill O Neil
Napoleon Reed
Edward Roche
Carlos van Putten
Elton J Warren
George Willis

11 of these 25 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 14 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
Hassard Short
Choreographer
Hassard Short
Producer
Billy Rose

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.

Recordings 4 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Carmen Jones, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

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.
  • Which of the 4 recordings of Carmen Jones document this run, if any.
  • When it closed.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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