The tour included nine weeks in Chicago, six weeks in London, and performances in Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Washington, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and cities in the northwestern United States and Canada[2] From September 16 to October 24 in 1931 Carter portrayed the role of Dave Crocker in Singin' the Blues at the Liberty Theatre in New York.

[3] During 1934 Carter performance in a New York production of Stevedore as Lonnie Thompson at the Civic Repertory Theatre.

Orson Welles adapted and directed the play, moved its setting from Scotland to a fictional Caribbean island, recruited an entirely African American cast, and earned the nickname for his production from the Haitian vodou that fulfilled the rôle of Scottish witchcraft.

[4]: 86  In 1936, at the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem, New York, a free preview drew 3,000 more people than could be seated[1]: 198  The show reportedly was sold out for all ten weeks.

[6] Beginning July 16, Maurice Ellis played the role of Macbeth in the remainder of the run at the Adelphi Theatre and on the subsequent national tour.