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Shows · The Green Pastures · Broadway Theatre, 1951

The Green Pastures, 1951

Opened March 15, 1951

Closed April 21, 1951

44 performances

Broadway Theatre

Revival

Broadway

The Green Pastures
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Of the productions that opened in the 1950s, this had the 337th longest run.

Who was in it61 named

William O. Davis
Pierre Dillard
William Dillard
Beatrice Edwards
Hope Foye
James Fuller
Joyce Gissentanner
Dierdre Greenway
Curtis Hawkins
Louise Hawthorne
Philip Hepburn
Phillip Hepburn
George Hill
Alma L Hubbard
Milroy Ingram
Yvonne Jiggets
Oci Johnson
Alonzo Jones
Jumel Jones
Avon Long
John Marriott
Tina Marshall
William Marshall
Willie Mays
William Mcdaniel
Robert Mcferrin
Courtenaye Olden
Louise Parker
Madeline Preston
Van Prince
Ethel Purnello
John Rainey
John H Rainey
Anna Mae Richardson
George Royston
Randolph Sawyer
Marcia Titus
Robert Titus
William Veasey
Margaret Williams
George O Willis
Beecher Wilson
Mary Young

Creative team

Director
Marc Connelly
Producer
The Wigreen Company in association with Harry Fromkes

Around this production

Green Pastures Sept 17 Winter Garden March 3 The Best Musicals From Show Boat To A Chorus Line By Arthur Jackson Foreword By , p. 161

the play was of “surpassing beauty” and included “magnificent strokes of imaginative comedy” that made it a “rare piece of work.

J. Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 43

Robert Benchley in the New Yorker told his readers that “never” in the theatre had they “seen anything like The Green Pastures” and they were “not likely to see anything like it again.” He warned them that if they didn’t “see it now,” they didn’t “deserve to.”

The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 43

the play was of “surpassing beauty” and included “magnificent strokes of imaginative comedy” that made it a “rare piece of work.

J. Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 43

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