The run closed May 22, 1926
- Opened
- September 18, 1925
- Closed
- May 22, 1926
- Performances
- 286
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Knickerbocker Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 118th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it46 named
Peggy Bancroft
Charles Bennington
Arthur Brown
Rachel Chester
Harold Crane
Roberta Curry
James Cushman
Marian Dabney
Marita Dennis
H E Eldridge
William Evill
Gloria Faye
Percy French
Alden Gay
Louis Gomez
Conrad Gordon
George Harold
Don Knobloch
Frank Lambert
Edward Larkin
Andrew Lawlor Jr
Joy Leitch
Betty Linn
Mildred Mann
Burton Mcevilly
Elizabeth North
Jane Overton
Josephine Payne
Geneva Price
Eugenia Renon
John Seymour
Jack Shannon
Lucille Smyser
Helen Spring
Mark Truscott
John Valentine
Marian Williams
Polly Williams
Percy Woodley
Devah Worrell
Mabel Zoeckler
5 of these 46 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
- John Murray Anderson, Charles Sinclair, Harry Ford, John
- Choreographer
- Carl Hemmer
- Producer
- George Ford
- Orchestrations
- Emil Gerstenberger
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
Dearest Enemy September 18, 1925 Knickerbocker Theatre 286 performances Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 186
- For other musicals about the American Revolution, see Dearest Enemy, page 48. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 220
- Dearest Enemy (9/18/ 25; 286 performances), actually written before The Garrick Gaieties, starred Helen Ford, Charles Purcell, Flavia Arcaro, and Andrew Lawlor Jr. Writing in the New York Evening World, E. W. Osborn said that the book was “wise and truly witty and genuinely romantic.” Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 187
- During the production of that historic revue, he met Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, and together they wrote seven Broadway musicals, including their first, Dearest Enemy, and A Connecticut Yankee. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 21
- Dearest Enemy (1925), his first book musical with Hart, gave his team the welcome “chance to demonstrate what we could do with a score that had at least some relevance to the mood, characters and situations found in a story.” Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 122
- Rodgers is the first to admit that a number of his musicals created with Hart do not even aspire to, much less achieve, the goals he first enunciated in the late 1920s with Dearest Enemy and Peggy-Ann. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 259
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 character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Dearest Enemy at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.