The run closed June 12, 1943
- Opened
- June 3, 1942
- Closed
- June 12, 1943
- Performances
- 427
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Shubert Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 65th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it48 named
Helen Bennett
Ruth Brady
Martha Burnett
Irene Corlett
Betty Jo Creager
Bob Douglas
Berni Gould
Lewis Hightower
Robert Hightower
Flower Hujer
Rose Inghram
Kay Kimber
Ray Koby
Janet Lavis
Don Liberto
Michael Mann
Jane Manners
Tony Matthews
Virginia Meyer
Margery Moore
Monica Moore
Mary Morris
Beth Nichols
Dorothy Poplar
Bobby Priest
Joyce Ring
Rosemary Sankey
George Schwalbe
William Silvers
Toni Stuart
Olga Suarez
Maidel Turner
William Vaux
Wana Wenerholm
Ken Whelan
Robert Wilson
12 of these 48 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 36 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
- Joshua Logan
- Choreographer
- Robert Alton
- Producer
- Dwight Deere Wiman & Richard Rodgers
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
BY JUPITER was pretty much the end of Rodgers and Hart. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 132
- In 1967, an Off-Broadway revival of By Jupiter ran for 118 performances. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 118
- By Jupiter, which remained the longest on Broadway of any Rodgers and Hart musical during the team’s partnership, was the last original show they wrote together. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 140
- Rumor says he was behind the deletion of another splendid song from another “Jupiter” musical: “Wait Till You See Her” was removed from By Jupiter (1942) just prior to the show’s New York opening night Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 116
- In 1942, By Jupiter topped out as their longest running show, with 427 performances. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 222
- The show opened at the Shubert Theater. It might have been their greatest success but for the fact that Ray Bolger, the star, quit to entertain troops overseas. It achieved the longest run of any Rodgers and Hart show until the revival of Pal Joey. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 472
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 By Jupiter at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.