The run closed September 8, 1934
- Opened
- September 30, 1933
- Closed
- September 8, 1934
- Performances
- 400
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Music Box Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 26th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it46 named
Helen Bache
Jack Barnes
Jeanette Bradley
Robert Castaine
Debby Coleman
Peggy Cornell
Arthur Craig
Dorothy Dodd
Elsie Duffy
Helen Ericson
Robert Gorham
Hamtree Harrington
Jay Hunter
Harry Joyce
Katherine Litz
William Matons
Fred Mayon
Irene Mcbride
Katherine Mulowney
Jeanette Mundell
Harold Murray
Chester O Brien
Mortimer O Brien
John Perkins
Paul Pierce
Margaret Sande
Toni Sorel
Ward Tallmon
Lucille Taylor
Harold Voeth
Jack Voeth
Elsa Walbridge
Teddy West
Paula Yasgour
Dorothy Stone
11 of these 46 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 35 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
- Hassard Short
- Choreographer
- Charles Weidman
- Producer
- Sam H. Harris
- Orchestrations
- Adolph Deutsch
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
- Sam Harris, who produced 32 musicals on Broadway, was also associated with Irving Berlin on The Cocoanuts, Face the Music, and As Thousands Cheer. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 61
- To this day it is considered one of the two greatest revues produced on Broadway. (The other was the Moss Hart/Irving Berlin As Thousands Cheer in 1933). At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 31
- As Thousands Cheer followed with a cast that included Clifton Webb, Marilyn Miller, and the great Ethel Waters, who introduced one of the most powerful and dramatic of all theater songs, “Supper Time” —one of Berlin’s only songs to address a social issue, racism in the South, and quite brave for its day. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 89
- earlier concept musicals, for example, the revue As Thousands Cheer in 1933 (arguably all revues are concept musicals), book musicals such as Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Allegro (1947), or Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner’s Love Life (1948)—like the precociously integrated Show Boat and Porgy and Bess explored in the prese… Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 404
- A more direct reference to Aimée Semple McPherson had occurred in Moss Hart’s sketch on the headline “Gandhi Goes on Hunger Strike” in the 1933 revue As Thousands Cheer (music by Berlin). Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 627
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 As Thousands Cheer at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.