The run closed March 7, 1936
- Opened
- September 19, 1935
- Closed
- March 7, 1936
- Performances
- 198
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Winter Garden Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 120th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it53 named
Joanna Allen
Frank Baker
Mary Bay
Regina Beck
Helen Bennett
Cliff Billings
Hazel Boffinger
Theodor Bonn
Mildred Borst
Jane Burks
Mary Ann Carr
Jean Carson
Andre Charise
Geri Chopin
Douglas Daniels
Wilbur Daniels
Helene Ecklund
Peggy Gallimore
Marjorie Gayle
Helen Hannen
Pearl Harris
Julie Jenner
Neville Landor
Jane Lane
Arnold Lenhart
Rose Lieder
Fred Locke
Gene Martel
June Mcnulty
Ernest Meyers
Woods Miller
Polly Rose
Virgil Scoggins
Claire Scott
Anne St George
Sue Hastings Marionettes
Sally Warren
Leo Watson
Mildred Webb
Ruth White
Nina Whitney
12 of these 53 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 41 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
- Vincente Minnelli, Thomas Mitchell
- Choreographer
- Gene Snyder, Harry Losee
- Producer
- Messrs. Shubert
- Orchestrations
- Russell Bennett
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
- The fifth and final mid-Thirties revue presented by the Shuberts at the Winter Garden was one of the brightest, merriest, and most elegant of the decade's stage attractions. Featuring two superior clowns, Beatrice Lillie and Bert Lahr, The Show Is On was something of a successor to At Home Abroad Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 121
- “Trains” (sketch by Reginald Gardner; from revue At Home Abroad , 1935) Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 275
- The revue was a reunion for Lillie and Gardiner, who had appeared together in Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz’s 1935 revue At Home Abroad . Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 277
- In 1935 Vincente Minnelli began his splashy tenure as revue master of the Winter Garden and he came up with At Home Abroad, a travelogue starring Beatrice Lillie, Ethel Waters, Eleanor Powell, and Reginald Gardiner. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 64
- DIETZ AND SCHWARTZ’s At Home Abroad; and two productions of the ZieGreLD Fo.uiEs following the great showman’s death were highlights of their musical offerings. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 506
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 At Home Abroad at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.