Tobacco Road (novel) poor Southern farmers such as the Lesters are trapped, continues. Tobacco Road (novel) Tobacco Road is a 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell about Georgia sharecroppers. It was dramatized for Broadway by Jack Kirkland in 1933, and ran for eight years, an astounding feat for a non-musical and, as of 2014, it was still the 18th longest-running Broadway show in history as well as being the second-longest running non-musical ever on Broadway. The novel ultimately argues for the sterilization of Georgia's poor whites, as the author's father, Ira Caldwell, had argued in his 1930 article in "The Eugenics Review". A 1941
Tobacco Road (play) immoral. The May 4, 1941 episode of the "Texaco Star Theater" radio show started with comedian Fred Allen doing a sketch about the closing of "Tobacco Road" on Broadway. He asked various characters how they felt about the closing. In the song "Come Up To My Place" from the musical "On the Town", which takes place in 1944, Chip asks the cab driver Hildy to take him to several defunct New York attractions, including Tobacco Road. Tobacco Road (play) Tobacco Road is a play by Jack Kirkland first performed in 1933, based on the 1932 novel of the same name