Roll, Sweet Chariot, 1934

The run dates incomplete

Opened

October 2, 1934

Closed

Unknown

Performances

7

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

James Earl Jones Theatre

Of the 1,389 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and carry a performance count, this is the 1,127th 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 it51 named

Billy Andrews
Dorothea Archie
Lucian Ayers
Dora Bacotte
Edward Batten
Rufus Brent
Leonard Brown
Lucius Carter Jr
Philip Carter
Marguerite Cartwright
Ralf Coleman
Willard Decosta
Herbert Ellis
Pearl Gaines
William Hardaway
Lloyd Horton
Billy Jones
Rosalie King
Mulford Lee
Rose Macclendon
Olga Maillard
Luoneal Mason
Albert Mccoy
Sadie Mcgill
Arthur Mclean
Fred Miller
Lionel Monagas
John Morrissey
Lillian Norris
Joe Northern
Ralph Northern
Edward Pugh
Bobby Robinson
Lester Robinson
Bigelow Sayre
Zelda Shelton
Maude Simmons
Paul Smelley
Ethel Hardie Smith
Jay Thomas
Dora Thompson
Sam Tolson
Teddy Vaughn
Eleanor Wallace
Annie Wilson
Frank Wilson

5 of these 51 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 46 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

Emjo Basshe

Producer

Margaret Hewes

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 Roll, Sweet Chariot at all.
• When it closed.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.