Tobacco Road, 1933

The run closed May 31, 1941

Opened

December 4, 1933

Closed

May 31, 1941

Performances

3,182

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Theatre Masque

Of the 1,389 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and carry a performance count, this is the 2nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Tobacco Road 3 more that season

1942	Forrest Theatre Return-Engagement	34 perf.
1943	Ritz Theatre Revival · Anthony Brown	66 perf.
1950	48th Street Theatre Revival · Evelyn Ellis	7 perf.

Who was in it24 named

Sam Byrd
Ashley Cooper
Henry Hull
Ruth Hunter
Dean Jagger
Lamar King
Maude Odell
Patricia Quinn
Reneice Rehan
Edwin Walter
Margaret Wycherly
Charles Mcclelland
Ellen Andrews
Cynthia Arden
William Bishop
Ann Dere
Elaine Ellis
Kate Morgan
Vinnie Phillips
Robert Rose
Leora Thatcher
Augusta Wallace

2 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 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

Producer

Anthony Brown

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 Tobacco Road at all.
• No director named.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.