The run closed January 3, 1931
- Opened
- March 3, 1930
- Closed
- January 3, 1931
- Performances
- 357
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Apollo Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 33rd 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 it70 named
Joanna Allen
Andy Anderson
Jack Bedford
Walter Blair
Hazel Boffinger
Jane Brown
Jack Bruns
Bobbie Campbell
Virginia Case
Warren Crosby
Charles Davis
Dody Donnelly
Bernie Dossitt
Lois Eckhart
George Ford
Jane Gale
Jean Gale
Joan Gale
June Gale
Peggy Gallimore
Dorothy Hall
Elmer Hertel
Beth Holt
Rita Horgan
James Howard
Don Hudson
Jesse James
Renee Johnson
Phil King
Barbara Lee
Bob Lively
Fred Manatt
Florence Marriner
Edith Martin
Vivian Mathison
John Mccahill
Maurine Mcneil
Clarence Meyers
Carol Miller
Helene Miller
Dorothy Morgan
Peggy Moseley
William Murray
James Notarro
Gladys Page
Mickey Ray
Peggy Ring
Cornelia Rogers
Charles Rose
Herbert Sampson
Diana Seaby
Len Shaw
Carolyn Sickle
Robert Silva
Jane Stafford
Flora Taylor
Benjamin Tilberg
Betty Travers
Al Vickers
Daniel Wakeley
Mildred Webb
Henry Whittemore
8 of these 70 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 62 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
- George White, Edward Clark Lilley
- Choreographer
- Bobby Connolly
- Producer
- George White
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
- The fifth longest running musical of the Twenties, Good News! was the first of a quartet of breezy, youthful DeSylva, Brown and Henderson musical comedies that capitalized on popular sports, fads, occupations, and innovations. (The oth¬ er: Hold Everything!, Flying High, and Follow Thru.) Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 80
- Most famous today as the show that Bert Lahr was unable to leave so he could play the role written for him in Girl Crazy, Flying High actually ran nearly three months longer than the Gershwins’ more famous show. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 151
- DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson entered the book musical field with five hits in a row. Following FLYING HIGH [March 3, 1930], the team went to Hollywood—where DeSylva soon moved on to a pro- ducing career (see DUBARRY WAS A LADY [Porter: December 6, 1939]). Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 567
- Hold Everything, Flying High, Hot-Cha!, and Life Begins at 8:40, but in their time, they elevated him to top of the musical comedy field. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 99
- the four most popular musical comedy successes of the 1930s featured Gaxton, Lahr, Merman or Moore, usually in combination: Flying High (Lahr) Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 146
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 Flying High at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.