The run closed May 5, 1928
- Opened
- November 30, 1927
- Closed
- May 5, 1928
- Performances
- 184
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Hammerstein's Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 248th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it109 named
F J Accoll
Alexander U Fine S Russian Art Choir
Ann Anderson
Vsevolad Andrenoff
Emilia Andrievska
Irving Andrievsky
Paula Ayers
Louise Baer
Saloma Bartolm
Arnold Basil
Service Bell
W Messenger Bellis
Carlo Benetti
Norine Bogen
George Brant
Henry Brown
Leola Buelow
Alice Bussee
Maude Carleton
Barbara Carrington
Jacques Cartier
Tom Chadwick
Helene Chaudaroff
Vladimir Chavdaroff
Inez Clough
Helene Cunihan
Michael Dalsky
Xenia Dalsky
Vladimir Danieloff
Nydia D Arnell
Christine David
Joseph Davidenko
Frances Denny
Harold Des Verney
Frank Dobert
Hazel Drury
Frances Dumas
James Earl
H Webster Elkins
La Vergne Evans
Marie Foster
Norma France
Robert Paton Gibbs
Geraldine Gooding
Leonard Gorlenko
Kumar Goshal
Geneva Grant
Dora Grebenetsky
James Grey
Klara Grosheva
Maria Grushko
Amos Guerrant
Janet Hale
Adolph Henderson
Jean Hitch
Elizabeth Holloway
Zina Ivanova
Mimi Jordan
Karol Kayne
All Kisselava
Toni Klimovitch
Kohana
Peter Kosloff
Grace la Rue
Lucy Lawlor
Archie Leach
Ruthena Matson
William Mcfarland
Alva Mcgill
Len Mence
Peggy Messinger
Julia F Mitchell
Sorena Mumma
Mabel Olsen
Lidia Ordinsky
Peter Ordunsky
Raymond Otto
Alexander Ouzoroff
Anna Ouzoroff
Reginald Pasch
Henry Pemberton
Milton Rae
Mckinley Reeves
Alma Reynolds
Tom Rider
Leona Riggs
Wilma Roeloff
Viviene Russell
Bunny Schum
Konstantine Smith
Gil Squires
Marguerita Sylva
Magda Trauber
Louise Turner
Valla Valentinova
Joseph Vitale
William Walker
Benveneta Washington
Edward Watkins
Rosena Weston
Maud White
Earl Wilson
7 of these 109 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 102 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
- Reginald Hammerstein
- Choreographer
- Dave Bennett
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 show featured music by both Emmerich Kalman and Herbert Stothart, with lyrics by Hammerstein and Harbach. It was adapted into a 1930 Warner Bros. film, one of the early Technicolor musicals, which is now considered one of the most racially offensive films ever made.
- Opening: November 30, 1927; The Golden Dawn. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 165
- Golden Dawn did contain two Broadway firsts: the first topless chorus girl and the Broadway debut of Archie Leach, who would later be better known in Hollywood as Cary Grant. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 227
- Hammerstein’s next show, Golden Dawn (11/30/ 27; 184 performances), was followed by his first classic musical comedy, the enormously successful Show Boat (12/27/27; 572 performances). This legendary musical, with book and lyrics by Hammerstein and music by JEROME KERN, opened at the ZIEGFELD THEATER. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 233
- Note that the 1922 revue Better Times isn’t to be confused with the 1931 revue of the same name which closed during its pre-Broadway tryout (see entry). The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 173
- In his first two Broadway appearances, he ran the gamut of roles: from a blackface villain in the now notorious operetta Golden Dawn (1927) The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 110
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 Golden Dawn at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.