Shows · Free For All · Manhattan Theatre, 1931
Free For All, 1931
Of the productions that opened in the 1930s, this had the 860th longest run.
Who was in it31 named
Charles Althoff
Olive Bayes
Lilian Bond
Julia Chandler
G Pat Collins
John Donahue
Al Downing
Edward Emery
Dorris Groday
Peter Higgins
Gus Howard
David Hutcheson
Dorothea James
Grace Johnston
Dorothy Knapp
Clair Kramer
Peter Lang
Jeannette Loff
Philip Lord
Vera Marsh
Rae Powell
Robert Randall
Edwin Saulpaugh
Harry Shannon
Thelma Tipson
Don Tomkins
Edward Walters
Creative team
- Director
- Oscar Hammerstein II
- Choreographer
- Bobby Connolly
Recordings
1 recording of Free For All exist, but none was released while this run was on. See Free For All for all of them.
Around this production
Another Hammerstein-directed flop of the early 1930s, the show closed after just 15 performances. It was one of several failures that preceded Hammerstein's legendary partnership with Richard Rodgers.
"very thin, Irish-looking kid": Kenneth Turan, Free for All: Joe Papp, the Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told (New York: Doubleday, 2009), 28.
Fosse Sam Wasson, p. 569“I thought plays were effete”: Kenneth Turan, Free for All, 27.
Fosse Sam Wasson, p. 570Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.