Carmen Jones, 1946

The run closed May 4, 1946

Opened

April 7, 1946

Closed

May 4, 1946

Performances

32

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

City Center

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and carry a performance count, this is the 407th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Carmen Jones 3 more that season

1943	Broadway Theatre Original · Hassard Short, Charles Friedman	502 perf.
1945	City Center Revival · Hassard Short	21 perf.
1992	Transfer Transfer

Who was in it32 named

Doris Brown
Ford L Buck
Edward Christopher
Robert Clarke
Oliver Coleman
Ruth Crumpton
Richard Devaultier
Erona Harris
Coreania Hayman
Elijah Hodges
Sheldon B Hoskins
Urylee Leonardos
Fredye Marshall
James May
Bill O Neil
Frank Palmer
Napoleon Reed
Edward Roche
Randolph Sawyer
Randall Steplight
Andrew Taylor
Harold Taylor
Audrey Vanterpool
Elton J Warren
George Willis

7 of these 32 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 25 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.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.