The run closed May 17, 1919
- Opened
- August 22, 1918
- Closed
- May 17, 1919
- Performances
- 461
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Hippodrome
Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 10th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it117 named
Max Aaronson
John Abbott
J Nelson Adolph
Albert Alberto
Charles T Aldrich
John Aspe
Angel Barbara
Peggy H Barnstead
Charles Bart
Inez Bauer
Louise Beautora
Bluch
Catherine Breen
Inez Breen
John Breen
Nellie Breen
E Brennan
Andrew Byrne
James Byrne
John J Byrne
Louise Cardone
Lillian Carena
D J Carew
Anita Carlton
Anna Carter
J F Carty
James Cheviot
Ethel Clark
F Clarke
Stanley Clarke
Minnie Clifton
Tommy Colton
J Parker Coombs
A Davis
George Davis
Johnny Davis
Leo Davis
Dippy Diers
Genevieve Dix
The El Rey Sisters
Elm City Four
Will J Evans
Charles Floyd
The Four Amaranths
Joseph Frohoff
Albert Froome
Arthur Geary
George Gifford
Phil Gilpin
Camile Guintini
Poppy Guintini
Gerda Gulda
Barbara Harwood
Cissie Hayden
Harry Houdini
Catherine Huth
Albert Johnson
James Johnson
Marjorie Kelly
Ladella Comiques
Ada Lashan
Margaret Leon
Madge Loomis
J Lorimer
Lee Losch
Desiree Lubovska
Loretta Mack
Henry Mallia
Charles Melody
Nellie Melville
Margaret Millard
Bernard Milton
Bertha Moore
Kate Mordecai
Sophie Mordecai
William Morgan
The Musical Johnstons
Alice Nash
Edna Nash
J Nelson
Stella Norelle
Margaret Nugent
Cissie Osborn
Helen Patterson
Florence Phelps
Lillian Quinn
Charles Ravel
Bob Reano
A Rees
Earl Reynolds
Helen Reynolds
Robert Rosaire
Eddie Russell
Netta Russell
Marion Saki
Jean Schreiver
Slayman S Ali Arabs
P Smith
Daisy Smythe
William Stanley
Steele and Winslow
Octavio Tay
Tom Brown S Clown Band
The Two Gaudsmiths
William Unangst
Eugene Vary
Harry Ward
Helen Ward
William A Weston
Adolph Yoscaro
Fernando Yoscaro
Herman Yoscaro
Zip
4 of these 117 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 113 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
- R. H. Burnside
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.
Recordings 5 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Everything, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
Staged at the enormous Hippodrome Theatre (capacity over 5,000), these extravaganzas were a New York institution. The show ran for 461 performances, a remarkable achievement for the era.
Months after the Broadway opening, patrons drawn to the show by the song’s popular recording would find its subdued staging and abrupt termination odd. “It was almost like it wasn’t there,” adds Schmidt. Before the Parade Passes By Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical Joh, p. 242
If Holliday’s solo is one of the most powerful theatrical coups to be found in a Broadway musical since Ethel Merman sang “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” at the end of Act I of Gypsy, so Dreamgirls is the same kind of breakthrough for musical stagecraft that Gypsy was.
Speaker not recorded. More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 275- Lane and collaborator Harold Adamson went to Hollywood, quickly coming up with the hit Everything I Have Is Yours for the 1933 Dancing Lady. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 198
- Everything (1918-19) —461 performances. Revue A Nostalgic Reprise of the Great Broadway Period Baral Robert Author 1st E, p. 31
- When the star of a Broadway musical quits just three weeks before the opening, three women compete for the role, each encouraged by a different male member of the production staff. In the end, two of the women have conflicts that force them to withdraw, leaving Reynolds’s character the winner. Needless to say, no one w… Before the Parade Passes By Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical Joh, p. 70
- The star looked similarly ancient but gave a highly energetic performance, going through an assortment of her hits (“I Got Rhythm,” “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun,” “Anything Goes,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses”). Offstage Observations Inside Tales of the Steven Suskin Theodore S Chapin Rowman, p. 161
- The decade’s biggest box office draw, though, was Neil Simon, racking up hit after hit with Come Blow Your Horn, Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, and Plaza Suite. Singular Sensation the Triumph of Broadway the Triumph of Michael Riedel First A, p. 95
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.
- Which of the 5 recordings of Everything document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.