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Yellow Jack

44th Street Theatre, (4/7/1944 - 4/7/1944)
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Opening:Apr 7, 1944   
Closing:Apr 7, 1944 Total Performances:1


Category: Play, Drama, History, Original, Broadway
Setting: New York today, London in January of 1929, West Africa in June of 1927, Cuba in 1900, and London in September of 1929
Comments: This production is a shortened version of the original, put together by the actors in "Winged Victory." They gave one performance of the play, inviting critics and other members of the armed forces.






by opening date


Written by Sidney Howard; In collaboration with Paul De Kruif; Music arranged by M/Sgt. Norman Leyden

Directed by Pfc. Martin Ritt

Scenic Design by Pfc. Robert Rowe Paddock



Opening Night Cast

Pvt. Whitner Bissell Brinkerhof
Private, M.C., U.S.A 
 
Pvt. Philip Bourneuf Dr. Carlos Finlay  
Cpl. Fred Cotton William Crawford Gorgas
Major, M.C., U.S.A. 
 
Olive Deering Miss Blake
Special Nurse in Charge of the Yellow Fever Ward 
 
Pvt. John Forsythe O'Hara
Private, M.C., U.S.A 
 
Pfc. Donald Hanmer William H. Dean
Private, U.S.A. 
 
Pfc. Pitt Herbert Major Cartwright  
2nd Lt. Gilbert Herman Roger P. Ames
Asst. Surgeon, M.C., U.S.A. 
 
Cpl. Gary Merrill Walter Reed
Major, M.C., U.S.A. 
 
Sgt. Joseph Meyer Colonel Tory
of the Marine Hospital Corp. 
 
Louis Neistadt Busch
Private, M.C., U.S.A 
 
Sgt. George Reeves James Carroll
Member of the American Yellow Fever Commission in 
 
Pvt. Grant Richards Aristides Agramonte
Member of the American Yellow Fever Commission in 
 
Pfc. Robert Rose McClelland
Private, M.C., U.S.A 
 
Pvt. Alfred Ryder Jesse W. Lazear
Member of the American Yellow Fever Commission in 
 
Pfc. Kenneth Utt A Commissary Sergeant