The run closed May 2, 1931
- Opened
- September 23, 1930
- Closed
- May 2, 1931
- Performances
- 255
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- St. James Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 70th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it91 named
Edna Abbey
Jeanne Adams
James Babbitt
Marjorie Bailey
Ben Bernard
Bonnie Blackwood
Paul Brack
Joan Burgess
Jack Burley
Phyllis Cameron
Violet Casey
Laura Clairon
Joseph Clayton
Hal Clyne
Peaches Dahl
Frances Defoe
Alda Deery
Tom Denton
Fritzie Deuss
Margaret Dixon
Bert Doughty
John W Ehrle
Herman Ergotti
Dick Erskine
Eleanor Etheridge
Murray Evans
Walter Fehl
Jack Flaherty
Frank Gagen
Cara Gould
Adele Goulding
Jimmy Hadreas
John Hall
May Hass
Marion Herson
Gypsy Hollis
Frank Innis
Genevieve Irwin
Scott Jensen
Dick Kirby
Rose Kirsner
Muriel Lawlor
Eva Lewis
Bob Long
Joe Lyons
Jimmy Mahr
Dora Maughan
Jack Mcclusky
Pearl Mcknight
Glen Meyers
Carmen Morales
David D Morris
Frank Naldi
George Neville
Chet O Brien
Mortimer O Brien
Victor Pullman
Gus Quinlan
Billy Randall
Joe Reilly
Catherine Reynolds
Jack Richardson
Joe Riley
Elene Ross
Jack Ross
J Rousseaux
Patsy Schenck
George A Schiller
Mildred Schroder
Claribel Skinner
Nette Solomon
Rheta Stone
Odette Swan
Peggy Timmons
Kathleen Vannoy
Mary Grace van Noy
Pat Walshe
Flo Ward
Amy Weber
Teddy West
Florence Wilson
Wanda Wood
Florence Earle
William Powers
7 of these 91 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 84 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.
Characters9 roles recorded
Joe Cook Joe Squibb
Dave Chasen Wiffington
Dora Maughan Mrs. Fordyce
Nell O'Day Maribelle Fordyce
Alice Boulden Nancy Ellis
Joe Wagstaff George Ellis
George A. Schiller Mr. Ellis
John W. Ehrle Edgar Little
Eleanor Powell Miss Hunter
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Morris Green, Frank McCoy
- Choreographer
- David Gould, Tom Nip
- Producer
- Morris Green & Lewis Gensler
- Orchestrations
- Ha
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
Fine and Dandy Erlanger Oct 7 The Best Musicals From Show Boat To A Chorus Line By Arthur Jackson Foreword By , p. 161
- Boulden, Alice Fine and Dandy, 72 Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 353
- Fine and Dandy (9/23/30; 246 performances) boasted a good score by one of Broadway’s few female composers, Kay Swift, and her husband, Paul James. It included two hits, the title tune and “Can This Be Love.” The cast included comedian Joe Cook, dancer Eleanor Powell, and future Hollywood restauranteur Dave Chasen. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 495
- 23 September: Fine and Dandy, with music by Kay Swift and lyrics by Paul James, opens at the Erlanger Theater, one of the few musicals of the period by a female composer. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 20
- Broadway’s first exceptional female composer, which is to say a good composer who happened not to be a man, was Kay Swift (1905-1995). Swift gained instant acclaim as the stock market tumbled, with two brilliant revue songs— “Can't We Be Friends?” and “Can This Be Love”—and the hit show Fine and Dandy (1930), whose tit… More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 849
- Joe Cook (1890-1959) in Fine and Dandy (1930). Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 250
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 recording is held for Fine And Dandy at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.