- (1923 - 1950) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1923) Stage Play: Runnin' Wild. Musical comedy. Music by James Johnson. Book by F.E. Miller and Aubrey L. Lyles. Lyrics by Cecil Mack. Choreographed by Lyda Webb. New Colonial Theatre: 29 Oct 1923- 28 Jun 1924 (228 performances/on hiatus from 4 May 1924- 22 Jun 1924). Cast: Alice Allison (as "Chorus"), Bessie Allison (as "Chorus"), Hazel Anderson (as "Chorus"), Leonora Bradley (as "Chorus"), Leila Brogden (as "Chorus"), Ralph Bryson (as "Lightning"), Ralph Cooper (as "Chorus"), Norma Davis (as "Chorus"), Marie DeVoe (as "Chorus"), Mildred Dixon (as "Chorus"), Ina Duncan (as "Mandy Little"), Paul C. Floyd (as "Detective Wise"), Billy Foster (as "Chorus"), Gwendolyn Graham (as "Chorus"), Eddie Gray (as "Willie Live"), Adelaide Hall (as "Adalade"), Vivian Harris (as "Chorus"), Georgette Harvey (as "Angelina Brown") [Broadway debut], Monte Hawley (as "Chorus"), C. Wesley Hill Uncle Mose"), Marguerite Howard (as "Chorus"), Revella Hughes (as "Ethel Hill"), Dorothy Irving (as "Chorus"), J. Wesley Jeffrey (as "Silas Green"), Adelaide Jones (as "Chorus"), Ruth Lambert (as "Chorus"), Bob Lee (as "Ginger"), A.L. Lyles (as "Sam Peck"), Arthur Mason (as "Chorus"), F.E. Miller (as "Steve Jenkins"), Lionel Monagas (as "Tom Sharper"), Charles Olden (as "Head Waiter"), Arthur D. Porter (as "Uncle Amos"), Dorothy Rhodes (as "Chorus"), Amey Roden (as "Chorus"), Charles Saltez (as "Chorus"), George Stamper (as "Sam Slocum"), George Stephens (as "Jack Penn"), Ela Thomas (as "Chorus"), Jessie Wallace (as "Chorus"), Lyda Webb (as "Chorus"), Elizabeth Welsh (as "Ruth Little"), Theresa West (as "Chorus"), Percy Wiggins (as "Chorus"), Mattie Wilkes (as "Mrs. Silas Green"), Beatrice Williams (as "Chorus"), Joseph Wilson (as "Chorus"), Tommy Woods (as "Chief Red Cap"), James H. Woodson (as "Boat Captain"), Katherine Yarborough (as "Lucy Lanky"). Produced by George White.
- (1927) Stage Play: Porgy. Written by Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian [earliest Broadway credit]. Guild Theatre: 10 Oct 1927- Aug 1928 (closing date unknown/367 performances). Cast: Jack Carter (as "Crown"), Peter Clark (as "Jim"), Stanley DeWolfe (as "A Dectective"), Evelyn Ellis (as "Crown's Bess"), Lloyd Gray, Georgette Harvey (as "Maria"), Wesley Hill (as "Jake"), Richard Huey (as "Mingo") [Broadway debut], Rose MacClendon (as "Serena"), Ella Madison, Maurice McRae (as "Policeman"), Garrett Minturn (as "The Coroner"), Dorothy Paul (as "Lily"), Hayes Pryor (as "Peter"), Hugh Rennie (as "Policeman"), Percy Verwayne (as "Sporting Life"), Leigh Whipper (as "The Crab Man"), Frank H. Wilson (as "Porgy"), Marie Young (as "Clara"). Produced by The Theatre Guild. Note: this was the original non-musical version.
- (1929) Stage Play: Porgy. (Revival). Written by Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Martin Beck Theatre: 13 Sep 1929- Oct 1929 (unknown closing date/34 performances). Cast: Jack Carter (as "Crown"), Peter Clark (as "Jim"), A.B. DeComathiere (as "Simon Frazier") [credited as A.B. Comatheire], Evelyn Ellis (as "Crown's Bess"), Georgette Harvey (as "Maria"), Wallace Hill (as "Scipio"), Wesley Hill (as "Jake"), Richard Huey (as "Mingo"), Felix Jacoves (as "Policeman"), Rose MacClendon (as "Serena"), Ella Madison, Morris McKenny, Garrett Minturn (as "The Coroner"), Dorothy Paul (as "Lily"), Hayes Pryor (as "Peter"), Wayland Rudd (as "Nelson"), Erskine Sanford (as "Alan Archdale"), Frederick Smith (as "A Dectective"), Edna Thomas, Percy Verwayne (as "Sporting Life"), Walter Warner, Leigh Whipper, Frank H. Wilson (as "Porgy"). Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- (1935) Stage Play: Porgy and Bess. Musical-opera. Music by George Gershwin. Libretto by DuBose Heyward. Lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Based on the play "Porgy" by DuBose Heyward and Dorothy Heyward. Scenic Design by Sergei Soudeikine. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Alvin Theatre: 10 Oct 1935- 25 Jan 1936 (124 performances). Cast: Anne Wiggins Brown (as "Bess"), Todd Duncan (as "Porgy"), John W. Bubbles (as "Sportin' Life"), Ruby Elzy (as "Serena"), Olive Ball (as "Annie"), Ford L. Buck (as "Mingo"), Alexander Campbell (as "Detective"), George Carleton (as "Coroner"), Jack Carr (as "Jim"), Warren Coleman (as "Crown"), Henry Davis (as "Robbins"), Helen Dowdy (as "Lily/Strawberry Woman"), John Garth (as "Undertaker"), Georgette Harvey (as "Maria"), The Eva Jessye Choir (Eva Jessye: Choral Conductor), J. Rosamond Johnson (as "Frazier"), George Lessey (as "Mr. Archdale"), Edward Matthews (as "Jake"), Burton McEvilly (as "Policeman"), Abbie Mitchell (as "Clara"), Gus Simons (as "Peter/The Honey Man"), Harold Woolf (as "Policeman"), Ray Yeates (as "Crab Man"). Produced by the Theatre Guild.
- (1939) Stage Play: Mamba's Daughters. Written by Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward. Featuring songs by Jerome Kern. Based on the novel by DuBose Heyward. Directed by Guthrie McClintic. Empire Theatre: 3 Jan 1939- May 1939 (closing date unknown/162 performances). Cast: Oliver Barbour (as "The Prosecuting Attorney") [final Broadway role], Edna Beane, Reginald Beane, Altunar Branan, Inez Branan, Anne Brown, Willie Bryant, Georgia Burke (as "Eva"), Doris Champion, Rebecca Champion, Bob Coogan, John Cornell, Helen Dowdy, José Ferrer (as "St. Julien DeC. Wentworth Saint"), Georgette Harvey (as "Mamba"), Mary Holmes, Alberta Hunter, J. Rosamond Johnson (as "The Reverend Quintus Whaley"), Ella Mae Lashley, Canada Lee (as "Drayton"), Assotta Marshall, Fredye Marshall, Henry May, Arthur McLean, Harry Mestayer, Joyce Miller, Rena Mitchell, Dorothy Paul, Hayes Pryor, Ethel Purnello, Robert Raines, Maud Russell (as "Jane"), John Rustad, Louis Sharp, Al Stokes (as "Davey"), Fredi Washington, Edna Waters, Ethel Waters (as "Hagar"), Bradley Wilson, Jimmy Wright. Produced by Guthrie McClintic.
- (1937) Stage Play: Brown Sugar. Melodrama. Written by Bernie Angus. Incidental music by Haven Johnson. Scenic Design by Cirker & Robbins. Directed by George Abbott. Biltmore Theatre: 2 Dec 1937- 4 Dec 1937 (4 performances). Cast: John T.L. Bunn (as "Trot"), Eric Burroughs (as "Musken"), Alvin Childress (as "Slim"), Martin de C. Slade (as "Lonny"), Beth Dixon (as "Stella"), Beulah E. Edmonds (as "Louella"), Ruby Elzy (as "Sarah"), George Fitzpatrick (as "O'Hara"), Georgette Harvey (as "Lily May"), Juan Hernandez (as "Sam"), Irene Hill (as "Cleo"), Bertram Holmes (as "Jeb"), Richard Huey (as "Bartender"), Haven Johnson (as "Rosco"), Ira Johnson (as "Charlie"), Paul Johnson (as "Tar"), Kathryn Lavall (as "Ruby"), Canada Lee (as "Henry"), Richard McMyers (as "Sylvester"), Butterfly McQueen (as "Lucille"), Julian Miles (as "Officer Leroy"), Ernest Rowan (as "First Mate"), John Shellie (as "Pete Malley"), George W. Smith (as "Officer Kent"), T. Burton Smith (as "Tom Warfield"), Allen Tinney (as "George"), William Tinney (as "Walter"), Frederick Wallace (as "McQuade"), Jimmy Waters (as "Man"), Christola Williams (as "Rosalinda"). Produced by George Abbott.
- (1932) Stage Play: Blackberries of 1932. Musical [All Black cast]. Music by Donald Heywood and Tom Peluso. Book by Lee Posner and Eddie Green. Lyrics by Donald Heywood and Tom Peluso. Featuring songs with lyrics by Ben Bernard. Musical Director: Sam Wooding. Choreographed by Sidney Sprague and Lew Crawford. Scenic Design by Myer Kanin and Buell Scenic Studio. Costume Design by Gladys Douglas. Directed by Ben Bernard. Liberty Theatre: 4 Apr 1932- 23 Apr 1932 (24 performances). Cast: Susaye Brown, Amon Davis, John Dickens, Drake and Morton, Baby Goins, Eddie Green, Alice Harris, Georgette Harvey, Monte Hawley, Johnny Long, Natalie Long, Moms Mabley [credited as Jackie Mabley], Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham, Martin and Boisseau, Thelma Meers, Tim Moore, Mantan Moreland, Harold Norton, Sam(my) Paige, Kay Parker, Helen Powell, Robert Raines, Charles Ray, Gertrude Saunders, Bill Shepard, The Brown Madcaps, The Burma/Zulu Maids, The Three Bubbles, The Three Yorkers, Musa Williams [Broadway debut]. Produced by Max Rudnick and Ben Bernard.
- (1930) Stage Play: Solid South. Comedy-satire. Written by Lawton Campbell. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Lyceum Theatre: 14 Oct 1930- Nov 1930 (closing date unknown/31 performances). Cast: Richard Bennett, Bette Davis, Owen Davis Jr. (as "Rex"), Georgette Harvey (as "Patience"), Richard Huey (as "Elijah"), Moffat Johnston, Jessie Royce Landis (as "Leila Mae"), Elizabeth Patterson, Lew Payton. Produced by Alexander McKaig.
- (1930) Stage Play: Five Star Final. Comedy. Written by Louis Weitzenkorn. Cort Theatre: 30 Dec 1930- Jun 1931 (closing date unknown/175 performances). Cast: Sydney Booth, Lillian Bronson, Arthur Byron, King Calder, Berton Churchill, Frank Dae, Ken Dana, Mike D'Arcy, Amy Dennis, Malcolm Duncan, Frances Fuller, Georgette Harvey, Fred House, Richard Huey, Laurie Jacobs, Allen Jenkins (as "Ziggie Feonstein"), P.J. Kelly, Alvin Kerr, Kathryn Keyes, Bruce MacFarlane, Merle Maddern, Madeline Marshall, Dorothy McElhone, Alexander Onslow, Henry Sherwood, Helene Sinnott. Produced by A.H. Woods.
- (1931) Stage Play: Savage Rhythm. Drama.
- (1932) Stage Play: Ol' Man Satan. Incidental music by Donald Heywood. Directed by William A. Shilling. Forrest Theatre: 3 Oct 1932- Oct 1932 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Ismay Andrews (as "Sister Johnson"), Ellen Baylor (as "Primrose"), David Bethe (as "Disciple"), Laurence Chenault (as "Moses"), A.B. Comatheire (as "Satan"), James Cook (as "Hunchback"), Herbert Ellis (as "Keeper of Souls"), Freeman Fairley (as "Number Three Imp"), Clyde Faison (as "Noah's Temptress"), Bee Freeman (as "Second David Temptress"), Taylor Gordon (as "Disciple"), Cleo Harris (as "Merrie"), Georgette Harvey (as "Ma Jackson"), Luther Henderson (as "Disciple"), Phyllis Hunt (as "Josh"), Mike Jackson (as "Gabriel"), Florence Lee (as "Jezebel"), Tressie Legge (as "Sister Crabtree"), Arthur McLean (as "Maggie's Protector"), James McPheeters (as "John/Disciple"), Dan Michaels (as "Saul"), Fred Miller (as "Farmer"), Kolly Mitchell (as "Soldier"), Lionel Monagas (as "Peter/Murderer"), Helen Nelson (as "Mother"), Hilda Offley (as "First David Temptress"), Hayes L. Pryor (as "Noah"), Alice Ramsey (as "Sister Bright/Procuress"), Ralph Ramson (as "Blind Man"), Walter Richardson (as "David"), Walter Robinson (as "Paul"), Wandolph Saunders (as "Racketeer"), Edna Thomas (as "Maggie"), DeKoven Thompson (as "James"), Lorenzo Tucker (as "Teacher"), Mary Jane Watkins (as "Becky"). Produced by Shillwood Productions.
- (1944) Stage Play: Anna Lucasta. Written by Philip Yordan. Directed by Harry Wagstaff Gribble. Mansfield Theatre: 30 Aug 1944- 30 Nov 1946 (957 performances). Cast: Georgia Burke (as "Theresa"), Alice Childress (as "Blanche"), Alvin Childress (as "Noah"), Hubert Henry (as "Eddie"), Earle Hyman (as "Rudolf") [Broadway debut], Rosetta LeNoire (as "Stella"), Canada Lee (as "Danny"), Frederick O'Neal (as "Frank"), John Proctor (as "Stanley"), George Randol (as "Joe"), Emory Richardson (as "Officer"), Hilda Simms (as "Anna"), Theodora Smith (as "Katie"), John Tate (as "Lester"). Replacement actors: Roy Allen (as "Stanley") [Alternate], Gerard Beverly (as "Lester") [Alternate], Isabelle Cooley (as "Anna"), Ruby Dee (as "Anna"), Inge Hardison (as "Stella"), [Alternate], Georgette Harvey (as "Theresa") [Alternate], Claire Jay (as "Blanche") [Alternate], Yvonne Machen (as "Anna"), Lionel Monagus (as "Officer"), John Tate (as "Danny"), Slim Thompson (as "Noah") [Alternate], Duke Williams (as "Lester"), Milton Wood (as "Eddie"). Produced by John Wildberg. Note: Filmed by Columbia Pictures Corporation as Anna Lucasta (1949), by Longridge Enterprises [distributed by United Artists] as Anna Lucasta (1958).
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