The run closed November 28, 1925
- Opened
- June 8, 1925
- Closed
- November 28, 1925
- Performances
- 211
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Garrick Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 198th 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.
Other stagings of Garrick Gaieties 2 more that season
| 1926 | Guild Theatre Revival | 174 perf. |
| 1930 | Guild Theatre Revival · Philip Loeb | 158 perf. |
Who was in it31 named
Sally Bates
Alvah Bessie
Dorothea Chard
Harold Conklin
Peggy Conway
Henry Geiger
Hildegarde Halliday
Edward Hogan
Frances Hyde
Felix Jacoves
House Jameson
Paul Jones
Starr West Jones
Stanley Lindahl
Mary Marsh
John Mcgovern
James Norris
Jack Quigley
Louis Richardson
Rose Rolanda
Willard Tobias
Barbara Wilson
9 of these 31 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 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
- Philip Loeb
- Choreographer
- Herbert Fields, Herbert
- Producer
- Theatre Guild
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
Audience and critical acclaim was such that the ‘one day’ Garrick Gaieties ran for 211 performances, followed in 1926 by the second edition. The Best Musicals From Show Boat To A Chorus Line By Arthur Jackson Foreword By , p. 31
- Brent, Romney Garrick Gaieties, The, 46 Little Show, The, 67 Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 353
- He began his career as a choreographer for the original Garrick Gaieties. During the production of that historic revue, he met Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, and together they wrote seven Broadway musicals, including their first, Dearest Enemy, and A Connecticut Yankee. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 21
- others, by the accident of having been born too late, begin with songs from the early Garrick Gaieties. Encyclopedia of Theatre Music A Comprehensive Listing of Lewine Richard Simon Al, p. 11
- **Manhattan—for initial publication see GARRICK GAIETIES [Ist] [May 17, 1925] Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 116
- Duke and Harburg also wrote additional songs (unpublished) for the post-Broadway tour of this final GARRICK GAIETIES. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 189
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 Garrick Gaieties at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.