The run closed November 14, 1931
- Opened
- October 27, 1931
- Closed
- November 14, 1931
- Performances
- 23
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Manhattan Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 703rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it86 named
Ahi
Paul Aines
I Anchong
Herman Belmonte
Clara Blackath
Raymond Bramley
Nat Broffman
Katherine Cameron
Thomas Chadwick
Tom Chadwick
George Chapell
Anna Mae Colburn
Marie Dejardin
Marjorie Dille
Frank Dobert
J C Donsu
Vance Elliott
Jules Epailly
John Fredericks
Mildred Gethins
Charles Glazer
Ruth Gordon
Ruth Green
Helen Haynes
Gypsy Hollis
Gus Howard
Y y Hsu
Alfonso Inglasia
Ivan Izmailov
Betty Junod
Andrew Keller
Eugene King
Evelyn King
Bennie Ladner
Emile Ladoux
Adrienne Lampel
Olga Leigh
Bert Leroy
Walter Leven
Jocelyn Lyle
Frances Markey
Francis Markey
Rita Marks
Vera Marsh
Edward Martin
Dennie Moore
Rose Mullen
Norma Nash
Sylvia Nelson
Fred Orbowski
Anita Pam
Leatrice Pearl
Lorraine Pearl
Sherry Pelham
Cornelius Pichler
Harry Pickering
Basil Prock
James Renard
Sylvie Roberts
Alfred Russ
Harry Sacher
Bart Shilling
Alada Sio
Ivan Sokoloff
Milton Stecker
Blanche Stepner
Kay Stewart
Peggy Strickland
Jackson Stuart
Aron Tamaroff
Carola Taylor
Rosalie Trego
Dorothy van Hest
O J Vanasse
Frank Vaughn
Gladstone Waldrip
William Warren
Amy Weber
S Wong
Alex Yakovleff
John Tomney
5 of these 86 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 81 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
- Oscar Hammerstein II
- Orchestrations
- by
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
This was one of the last collaborations between Romberg and Hammerstein. Despite the team's earlier success with The Desert Song, East Wind was a commercial failure, running only 23 performances during the depths of the Depression.
- The next year found Romberg collaborating again with Hammerstein. The result was East Wind (10/27/31), a failure. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 476
- The fall season proved disastrous for Oscar Hammerstein II, who had two huge failures in a row. Both opened at the Manhattan Theatre, Free for All on September 8 for fifteen performances and East Wind on October 27 for twenty-three showings, and while the latter may have been burdened by its clichéd operetta plot The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 162
- several impressive operettas appeared in the 1930s, including Friml’s Luana (1930) and Romberg’s East Wind (1930), Nina Rosa (1931) and May Wine (1935). Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 111
- East Wind (with Romberg) also closed after twenty-three performances, and Free for All (with Richard A. Whiting) after a dismal fifteen. Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 192
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 East Wind at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.