The run closed April 13, 1929
- Opened
- September 5, 1928
- Closed
- April 13, 1929
- Performances
- 253
- 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 150th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it76 named
Bob Abbott
Alice Akers
Joseph Ames
Mary Bay
Evelyn Bennett
Lester Bernard
Louise Blakeley
Lillian Burke
Margaret Callan
Georgette Caryl
Virginia Case
Austin Clark
Sylvia Collinson
Aida Conkey
Henry Corsell
Billie Cortez
Arthur Craig
Betty Croke
Ruth Cunliffe
Phil Daly
Milton Douglas
Peggy Driscoll
Madelyn Eubanks
Rosemary Farmer
Jeanne Fayal
Loretta Flushing
Edwin Gaillard
Beryl Golden
Bobby Gorman
Muriel Greel
Muriel Griswold
Buddie Haines
Sam Hearn
Jack Irwin
Dorothy Jocelyn
Olive Kenyon
Grace la Rue
Mildred Lorrain
Ned Lynn
Tom Martin
Ruth Mason
Helene Mcglynn
Lucille Mercier
Gordon Merrit
William Metz
Ariel Millars
Borrah Minevitch
Dick Neely
Dolores Nito
Jack O Hare
Mabel Olsen
Elsie Percival
Boo Phelps
Gus Quinlan
Alice Raisen
Howard Raymond
Stan Rock
Bunny Schum
Effie Shannon
Neil Stone
Morris Tepper
Jean Unger
Dorothy Ward
Flo White
Will Withe
Kay Wolf
Betty Wright
Roy Sedley
8 of these 76 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 68 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
- Busby Berkeley
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 Helen Kane, whose baby-voice singing style inspired the cartoon character Betty Boop. Her performance of 'I Wanna Be Loved by You' (boop-boop-a-doop) became a massive hit. Busby Berkeley choreographed before becoming Hollywood's most famous dance director.
GOOD BOY September 5, 1928 Hammerstein’s Theatre 253 performances Music mostly by Harry Ruby and Herbert Stothart Lyrics mostly by Bert Kalmar Book by Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, and Henry Myers Directed by Reginald Hammerstein Produced by Arthur Hammerstein With Eddie Buzzell and Helen Kane Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 261
- Hammerstein’s next show, Good Boy (9/5/28; 253 performances), with music by Herbert Stothart and Harry Ruby, also had lyrics by Bert Kalmar. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 233
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 Good Boy at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.