Tobacco Road, 1950

The run closed March 18, 1950

Opened

March 6, 1950

Closed

March 18, 1950

Performances

7

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

48th Street Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 603rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Tobacco Road 3 more that season

1933	Theatre Masque Original	3,182 perf.
1942	Forrest Theatre Return-Engagement	34 perf.
1943	Ritz Theatre Revival · Anthony Brown	66 perf.

Who was in it10 named

Mercedes Gilbert
Estelle Hemsley
Baby Joyce
Powell Lindsay
Delores Mack
John Mark
John Tate
Cherokee Thornton
Jimmy Wright

1 of these 10 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 9 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

Evelyn Ellis

Producer

Jack Kirkland

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