The run closed July 9, 1932
- Opened
- February 17, 1932
- Closed
- July 9, 1932
- Performances
- 165
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- New Amsterdam Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 153rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Face the Music 1 more that season
| 1933 | 44th Street Theatre Revival · Albertina Rasch | 31 perf. |
Who was in it74 named
Thomas Arace
Ward Arnold
Jack Barnes
Virginia Bethel
Mary Brooks
Dave Burns
Charles Burrows
Dorothy Claire
Charles Coleman
Aida Conkey
Leslie Cornell
Ed Crosswell
Guy Daly
Maxine Darrell
Peggy Dell
Martin Dennis
Nancy Dolan
Bert Doughty
Elsie Duffy
Clyde Fillmore
George Ford
Edward Gargan
Jack Good
Frances Halliday
Rita Horgan
Elizabeth Houston
Valerie Huff
Jay Hunter
Vernon Jayson
Alice Kellerman
Irene Kelly
Mary Kennedy
Phil King
Dorothy Lamb
Jeanette Lea
Betty Lee
Margaret Lee
Clark Leston
Bob Long
Helen Lyons
Joseph Macauley
Ruth Martin
Vida Mclain
Howard Morgan
Harry Murray
Dorissa Nelova
Evelyn Nielson
Chester O Brien
Emmett O Brien
Mortimer O Brien
Pat O Keefe
Oscar Polk
Wilma Roeloff
Etna Ross
Jack Ross
Jimmy Ryan
Jean Sargent
Peter Sargent
Martin Shepard
Stuart Steppler
Helen Thompson
Kathleen Vannoy
Mary Grace van Noy
Dorothy Waller
Teddy West
Jack Wolfe
Dan Wyler
7 of these 74 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 67 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
- Hassard Short, George S. Kaufman
- Choreographer
- Albertina Rasch
- Orchestrations
- Robert Russell Bennett
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 3 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Face the Music, 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
Face the Music is a musical, the first collaboration between Moss Hart (book) and Irving Berlin (music and lyrics). Face the Music opened on Broadway in 1932, and has had several subsequent regional and New York stagings. The popular song "Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee" was introduced in the musical by J. Harold Murray.
“Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee” from Face the Music).
Speaker not recorded. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 305- Sam Harris, who produced 32 musicals on Broadway, was also associated with Irving Berlin on The Cocoanuts, Face the Music, and As Thousands Cheer. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 61
- Though it was a revue, the Irving Berlin-Moss Hart As Thousands Cheer was considered a successor to the Berlin-Hart book musical, Face the Music, since it also dealt satirically with topics of current interest. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 107
- Berlin’s next score was for Face the Music (2/17/32), which featured the songs “Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee” and “Soft Lights and Sweet Music.” Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 89
- Face the Music (2/17/32; 166 performances) Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 298
- 17 February: Face the Music, with score by Berlin and satirical book by Moss Hart, debuts at the New Amsterdam Theater, running for 165 performances. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 20
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 3 recordings of Face the Music document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.