Bitter Sweet, 1929

The run closed March 22, 1930

Opened

November 5, 1929

Closed

March 22, 1930

Performances

159

Previews

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Theatre

Ziegfeld Theatre

Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 314th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Bitter Sweet 1 more that season

Who was in it92 named

Evelyn Laye1900–1996

G

Gerald Nodin—

M

Max Kirby—

M

Mireille—

J

John Evelyn—

Reginald Allen
Mildred Allen Letts
Bruce Anderson
Roy Arcourt
Leslie Bannister
Nancy Barnett
Isla Bevan
Peggy Blake
Gordon Brand
Claude Brittin Eldred
Nancy Brown
Kenneth Burston
James Cameron
Vera Caprice
Albert Chapman
Noel Clifford
Doris Colston
Hugh Cuenod
Constance David
Mary David
Sybil Davidson
William Dawson
Dorothy Debenham
Pauline Desmond
Peter Donald
Edna Earle
Alfred Fairhurst
Joyce Fletcher
Edmond Ford
Herbert Garry
Cunningham Glen
Trevor Glyn
Donald Gordon
Zoe Gordon
Douglas Graeme Brooke
Roy Hall
Gladys Hay Dillon
William Herbert
Leonora Hilton
Tracy Holmes
Kathleen Holt
Elsie Hulme
Iris Hulme
Desmond Jeans
Myfany Jenkins
Kathleen Lambelet
Sylvia Leslie
Eddie Lisbona
Peggy Lovat
Patrick Ludlow
Vicky Lynn
Isabel Marden
Cecile Maule Cole
William Mcguigan
Louis E Miller
Jane Moore
Charles Mortimer
Anthony Neville
Isabel Ohmead
Mervyn Pearce
Sydney Perlstone
Constance Perrin
Audrey Pointing
Roma Presano
James Prescott
Leonta Proctor
Marjorie Raymond
James Reid
Vernon Rudolph
Hooper Russell
Leah Russell
Eva Scott Thompson
Enid Settle
Marjorie Simpson
Paul Spender Clay
Joan Stanbrough
Vesta Sylva
Winifred Talbot
John W Thompson
Richard Thorpe
Marcel Turner
Gustav Wallenberg
Leah Warne
Iris White
George Woof
Arthur Woolf
Graham Yarborough

5 of these 92 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 87 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

Noël Coward

Choreographer

Tilly Losch

Producer

Florenz Ziegfeld & Arch Selwyn

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

• He wrote and directed the London musicals Bitter Sweet and Conversation Piece, both of which came to New York. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 56
• 5 November: Bitter Sweet, with score and libretto by Noel Coward and starring Evelyn Laye, opens at the Ziegfeld Theater, running 159 performances. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 20
• Ziegfeld also produced significant book musicals, including Rio Rita (1927, which opened his Ziegfeld Theater), the history-making Show Boat (1927), Rosalie (1928), The Three Musketeers (1928), Whoopee (1928), and Bitter Sweet (1929). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 423
• But, with few exceptions-Countess Maritza (Kalman, 1926); Bitter Sweet (Noel Coward, 1929)-foreign pieces were no longer as popular with American audiences as they had been before the war. Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 212
• the London hit Bitter Sweet (1929) closed in New York after a run of less than five months. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 130

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 Bitter Sweet at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.