Prologue to Glory, 1938

The run closed November 5, 1938

Opened

March 17, 1938

Closed

November 5, 1938

Performances

161

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Maxine Elliotts Theatre

Of the 1,389 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and carry a performance count, this is the 158th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it61 named

Edith Ansley
George Averill
Elizabeth Bilencova
James Bradleigh
Henry Buckler
Charles Burrows
Paul Byron
Leon Colker
Kitty Cosgriff
Stephen Courtleigh
George Cowell
Wilbur Cox
Winifred Crawford
Al Durand
Frank Eldred
Joan Flicker
Josephine Fox
Gustave Gordon
Tom Greenway
Louis Hallett
Gordon Hamilton
Charles Henderson
James P Houston
Herbert Jelley
Phillip C Jones
Isabel Keightley
James Kennedy
Harlan E Knight
Charles Leeper
Robert Lowe
Jimmie Lydon
Seymour Malmude
Clara Marsh
Harry Mathias
Roderick Maybee
Frank Mckinney
John Mcnulty
Robert Miller
Tom Morrison
Jean Nelson
Blanche Newcomb
Frank Norton
Lawrence O Brien
William Phelps
Edwin Platt
Patricia Ramsey
Carl Robinson
Robert Robson
Ann Rutledge
Arthur W Shackett
Lillian Shrewsbury
Lida Snow
Sharon Stephens
Robert Toms
Samuel van Dyke
June Victor
Violette Villiers
John West
Elizabeth Widmer
Sidney Williams
Erford Gage

0 of these 61 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 61 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

Leo Bulgakov

Producer

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 Prologue to Glory at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.