The run closed October 27, 1928
- Opened
- November 3, 1927
- Closed
- October 27, 1928
- Performances
- 418
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Vanderbilt Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 46th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of A Connecticut Yankee 2 more that season
| 1929 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 1943 | Martin Beck Theatre Revival · John C. Wilson | 135 perf. |
Who was in it34 named
Ward Arnold
Charles Bannister
Olive Bertram
Chester Bree
Arnold Brown
Gordon Burby
Margaret Collins
Grace Connelly
Martin Denis
Regina Diamond
Enez Early
Paul Everton
Ednor Fulling
Harriet Hammill
Jane Hurd
Fred Jordan
Leoda Knapp
Katharine Kohler
Helen Mann
Dan Mcgovern
Margaret Miller
Jack Morton
John Morton
Marion Nevins
Frank Norton
William Rosell
Dorothy Rubino
Evelyn Ruh
6 of these 34 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 28 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
- Alexander Leftwich
- Choreographer
- Busby Berkeley
- Producer
- Lew Fields & Lyle D. Andrews
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.
Around this production
- only the team’s 1927 A Connecticut Yankee played longer, for 418 performances. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 222
- The last project that the 2 worked on together was the 1943 revival of A Connecticut Yankee. Hart had collaborated with Rodgers on a new song for the show, \"To Keep My Love Alive.\" Following the opening night performance on November 17, Hart disappeared. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 472
- Connecticut Yankee was the biggest hit of the 1920s for Rodgers, Hart, and Fields. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 81
- When the following year Rodgers and Hart were preoccupied with A Connecticut Yankee, Porter was easily persuaded to leave Europe and bring Paris to New York. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 71
- In the increasingly small intervals between drinking binges Hart managed to create a few new songs for the successful 1943 revival of the 1927 hit A Connecticut Yankee (including the bitingly funny “To Keep My Love Alive”), but within a few months of Oklahoma!’s historic debut he was dead. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 148
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for A Connecticut Yankee at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.