The Swing Mikado, 1939

The run closed May 20, 1939

Opened

March 1, 1939

Closed

May 20, 1939

Performances

86

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

New Yorker Theatre

Of the 1,389 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and carry a performance count, this is the 310th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it69 named

Deloise Alexander
Jack Arnold
James Arnold
Asa Barnes
George Bateman
Alfred Bean
John Bean
Alice Biddix
Gladys Boucree
Wilma Bowen
Paul Bradney
Alice Brooks
Marion Brooks
Clara Brown
William Burns
Lloyd Cabbell
Georgia Carpenter
William Carr
Mabel Carter
Geraldine Clark
Joseph Clark
Samuel Clark
Maurice Cooper
Abie Crawford
Margaret Cross
Frankie Fambro
Edward Fraction
William Franklin
Isabel Futrell
Ashton Gorham
Percy Grace
Herman Greene
Willard Gregg
James Harris
Helen Howard
John Hughes
Charles Johnson
Elvira Johnson
Tillie Johnson
Harry Jones
Rebecca Jones
Martin Logan
Rose Long
Raymond Lowe
Martin Lucas
Scott Manning
Harry Mitchell
Ronald Montgomery
Vivian Morrison
Lulubelle Mosby
Eddie Mae Nance
Shelby Nichols
Vivian Parker
Hettie Reed
Emmett Richardson
Irwin Richardson
Ernest Roberts
James Smith
Albert Stanley
Clara Strickland
Mercedes Taliaferro
Mabel Walker
Theodore Ward
Lewis White
Paul Williams
Woody Wilson
Ernest Woodson
Jack Wright
Beatrice Yancy

0 of these 69 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 69 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

Sammy Dyer

Choreographer

Sammy Dyer

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