The Seagull, 1938

The run closed April 30, 1938

Opened

March 28, 1938

Closed

April 30, 1938

Performances

41

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Shubert Theatre

Of the 1,389 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and carry a performance count, this is the 500th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Seagull 8 more that season

1916	Bandbox Theatre Original
1929	Comedy Theatre Revival · Leo Bulgakov	31 perf.
1930	Waldorf Theatre Revival	5 perf.
1964	Belasco Theatre Revival	16 perf.
1992	Lyceum Theatre Revival · Marshall W. Mason	49 perf.
2008	Walter Kerr Theatre Revival · Ian Rickson	94 perf.
2017	Lyric Theatre Transfer
2022	Harold Pinter Theatre Original

Who was in it12 named

Lynn Fontanne
Alfred Lunt
John Barclay
Ernestine de Becker
S Thomas Gomez
Harold Moffet
Margaret Webster
O Z Whitehead

4 of these 12 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 8 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

Robert Milton

Producer

The Theatre Guild

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