Native Son, 1941

The run closed June 28, 1941

Opened

March 24, 1941

Closed

June 28, 1941

Performances

114

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

St. James Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and carry a performance count, this is the 213th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Native Son 1 more that season

1942

Majestic Theatre Revival · Orson Welles

84 perf.

Who was in it25 named

Jacqueline Ghant Andre
Frances Bavier
John Berry
C M Bootsie Davis
Eileen Burns
Anne Burr
Ray Collins
Evelyn Ellis
Nell Harrison
Canada Lee
William Malone
Helen Martin
Rena Mitchell
Joseph Pevney
J Flashe Riley
Don Roberts
Stephen Roberts
Erskine Sanford
Wardell Saunders
Everett Sloane
Paul Stewart
Rodester Timmons
Lloyd Warren
George Zorn

1 of these 25 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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 Native Son at all.
• No director named.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.