The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- August 28, 1922
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 88
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 640th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Who was in it8 named
8 of these 8 names have a person record behind them and link to one. 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
- Choreographer
- 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
An unsigned review in Time said White “enlivened” the evening “by staging an impromptu fist fight” with Brown, and Robert Benchley in the New Yorker mentioned White’s “little unpleasantness” with Brown and Ray Henderson, the revue’s composer. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 165
- George White’s Scandals (13 editions), the Messrs. Shubert’s Passing Shows (12 editions), the Earl Carroll Vanities (11 editions), the Greenwich Village Follies (8 editions), and Irving Berlin’s Music Box Revues (4 editions). Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 27
- Of all the revues that enjoyed more than one annual edition, the George White's Scandals series was the nearest to the Ziegfeld Follies in fame and longevity. Beginning in 1919, George White, who had danced in two Follies, turned out 13 editions in 21 years. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 64
- “The Birth of the Blues” (George White’s Scandals, 1926; lyric by Buddy G. DeSylva and Lew Brown, music by Ray Henderson) Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 529
- Revues were the vogue in the 1910s, ’20s, and 30s. There were the Ziegfeld Follies, Earl Carroll’s Vanities, George White’s Scandals, the Pass… Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 382
- The show George White’s Scandals opened on October 9, 1963. The Scandals were also filmed by Hollywood several times. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 579
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 George White’s Scandals at all.
- When it closed.
- No show page for George White’s Scandals. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.