Theatre Register

Chicago, 1926

Shows · Chicago · Music Box Theatre, 1926

We hold no picture of this staging. This one is filed against Chicago and could document any of its runs. Cheryl Sue Dolby of the Merlin Group
Original BroadwayMusic Box Theatre 172 performances

The run closed May 28, 1927

Opened
December 30, 1926
Closed
May 28, 1927
Performances
172
Previews
Theatre
Music Box Theatre

Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 283rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Chicago 2 more that season

1975 46th Street Theatre Revival · Bob Fosse 936 perf.
1996 Richard Rodgers Theatre Revival · Walter Bobbie 9,999 perf.

Who was in it26 named

Francine Larrimore
Charles A Bickford
Charles Halton
George W Anspeak
Robert Barrat
Ferike Boros
Doan Borup
George Cowell
Juliette Crosby
Carl de Mal
Edward Ellis
Edith Fitzgerald
Eda Heinemann
Charles Kuhn
George Lanning
Al Milliken
James C Pall
Thomas Poland
Charles Slattery
G Albert Smith
Dorothy Stickney
Wilma Thompson
Milano Tilden
Arthur R Vinton
Isabelle Winlocke
Vincent York

0 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 26 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
George Abbott
Producer
Sam H. Harris

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.

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

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