Help Yourself, 1936

The run dates incomplete

Opened

July 14, 1936

Closed

Unknown

Performances

82

Previews

0

Theatre

Manhattan Theatre

Of the 1,389 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and carry a performance count, this is the 317th 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.

Who was in it18 named

Curt Bois
Doan Borup
Charles Burrows
Camelia Campbell
Clay Cody
Stephen Courtleigh
Edward Forbes
George le Soir
Barna Ostertag
George Probert
Mary Roth
Charles Maclean Savage
Martha Skeen
William Vaughn
Huntly Weston
Alan Wilson
Jenny Wren

1 of these 18 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 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

Lucius Moore Cook

Producer

Popular Price Theatre of The 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 Help Yourself at all.
• When it closed.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.