The run closed July 5, 1930
- Opened
- November 27, 1929
- Closed
- July 5, 1930
- Performances
- 254
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lyric Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 149th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Who was in it98 named
Marjorie Arnold
Josephine Barnhardt
Jack Barrett
Jack Bauer
Julia Blake
Frank Bochetta
Betty Bowen
William Broder
California Collegians
Josephine Carroll
Billie Cline
Charles Conkling
Melva Cornell
Lester Crawford
William Culloo
Grace Davies
Dorothy Day
Nanette Deaustro
Jean del Val
Marguarite Denys
Nancy Dolan
Theresa Donahue
Bill Douglas
Tanya Dumova
Valeda Duncan
Mary Dunckley
Lou Duthers
Mildred Espy
Helen Fairweather
Jack Fraley
Regis Geary
Charlotte Geraud
Bob Gordon
Eileen Gorlet
Frances Grant
Annette Hoffman
Larry Jason
Adelaide Kaye
Carol Kingsbury
Manart Kippen
Meta Klinke
Betty Knight
Syuleen Krasnoff
Henry Ladd
Fifi Laimbeer
Lucille Lester
Teddy Lura
Oscar Magis
Pansy Maness
Jeanette Marion
Ignacio Martinetti
John Matsin
Lou Ann Meredith
Bernice Mershon
Florine Meyers
Bob Morgan
Gertrude Mudge
Frances Newbaker
Nor Norcross
George O Brien
Ethel O Dell
Patsy O Keefe
Belle Olska
Bill O Rourke
Catherine Palmer
Marjorie Phillips
Lorraine Platt
Blanche Poston
Sue Rainey
Ernest Rayburn
Billy Reed
Anna Rex
Marusa Roberti
Sid Salzer
Pearl Shepherd
Frankie Silvers
Billie Smith
Marie Sorel
Helen Splane
Peggee Standlee
Edna Storey
Sam Suchman
Marion Thompson
Beau Tilden
Doris Toddings
Jack Tucker
David Tulin
Marie Valli
Arthur Ver Bownes
Mario Villani
8 of these 98 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 90 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
- Monty Woolley
- Choreographer
- Larry Ceballos
- Producer
- E. Ray Goetz
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
Singer Betty Compton complained that her dressing room at the Lyric THEATER didn’t suit her stature as a star. She rectified the situation by calling her boyfriend, Mayor James J. Walker. The theater was hit with 6 code violations, and the show’s opening was threatened. Luckily, Helen Broderick, also starring in the show, agreed to switch dressing rooms. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 189
- The first stage production at the Broadway Theatre (on 53rd Street), The New Yorkers was something of a forerunner of Pal Joey in its amoral characters, cynical outlook, and flashy nightclub atmosphere. Just as Cole Porter and Herbert Fields’ previous Fifty Million Frenchmen had offered a musical tour of Paris, so the… Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 98
- COle Porter’s Fifty Million Frenchmen (11/27/29; 254 performances) was the theater’s last success, opening at the dawn of the Depression and during Prohibition. Among its songs were “You Do Something to Me” and “You’ve Got That Thing.” Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 346
- 'You Do Something to Me' in Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929), and “Love for Sale” in The New Yorkers (1930), and “Night and Day” in Gay Divorce (1932). Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 70
- Film adaptations of Something for the Boys and Mexican Hayride contained no songs by Porter; Paris and Fifty Million Frenchmen confined Porter’s music to background noise; Let’s Face It offered two songs; Dubarry Was a Lady, three; and Panama Hattie, four. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 239
- “Let’s Step Out” (Bonnie/Chorus) (introduced in Fifty Million Frenchmen by Evelyn Hoey and Gertrude McDonald [November 27, 1929]) Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 585
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 Fifty Million Frenchmen at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.