Heartbreak House, 1938

The run dates incomplete

Opened

April 29, 1938

Closed

Unknown

Performances

48

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Mercury Theatre

Of the 1,389 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and carry a performance count, this is the 454th 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 Heartbreak House 4 more that season

1920	Garrick Theatre Original · Dudley Digges	125 perf.
1959	Billy Rose Theatre Revival · Harold Clurman	112 perf.
1983	Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Anthony Page	65 perf.
2006	American Airlines Theatre Revival · Robin Lefèvre	79 perf.

Who was in it9 named

Mady Christians
George Coulouris
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Phyllis Joyce
Erskine Sanford
Eustace Wyatt

3 of these 9 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 6 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

Producer

Orson Welles

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 Heartbreak House at all.
• When it closed.
• No director named.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.