The run closed January 5, 1929
- Opened
- September 6, 1927
- Closed
- January 5, 1929
- Performances
- 551
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Richard Rodgers Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 18th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Good News! 1 more that season
| 1974 | St James Theatre Revival · Donald Saddler | 16 perf. |
Who was in it64 named
Arthur Appell
Clara Blackath
Jack Boggs
Bob Borger
Emily Burton
Joe Carey
Irving Carter
Wally Coyle
Frank Cullen
Dorothy Day
Zilpha de Witt
Phil Dewey
Dan Douglas
Valeda Duncan
Christine Ecklund
Edward Emery
Fran Frey
Betty Garson
Betty Gayle
Gerald Gehlert
Viola Goring
John Grant
Roberta Greene
Irene Hamlin
Andreas Irving
Claire Joyce
Ruth Kelly
Jack Kennedy
Larry Larkin
Ethel Lawrence
Ann Lee
Elsie Lombard
Bodil Lund
Zeda Mansfield
Charles Mayon
Ruth Mayon
John Mcavoy
Mack Murray
Roy Nelson
George Oliver
William Pahlman
Anita Pam
Sherry Pelham
Edwin Redding
Richard Renaud
Bob Rice
Herbert Rothwell
Margaret Shea
John Sheehan
Mildred Stevens
Don Tomkins
Gwendolyn Vernon
Shirley Vernon
Irene Warner
Gilbert White
Minerva Wilson
Carol Young
Dorothy Mcnulty
6 of these 64 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 58 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
- Edgar MacGregor
- Choreographer
- Bobby Connolly
- Producer
- Laurence Schwab & Frank Mandel
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
- After collaborating on musical comedies about football (Good News!)and boxing (Hold Everything!), DeSylva, Brown and Henderson followed up with Follow Thru, which was about golf. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 91
- GOOD NEWS! was a mindless football musical in the LEAVE IT TO JANE [Kern: August 28, 1917] tradition; “The Best Things In Life Are Free” and “The Varsity Drag” were hits in the DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson tradition. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 567
- Consider the fate of the four musical comedies of the 1920s to receive over five hundred performances, Sally (1920), Shuffle Along (1921), Sunny (1925) and Good News! (1927). Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 155
- The fourth hit musical comedy of the 1920s, Good News! (lyrics by DeSylva and Brown, music by Henderson), alone managed to have a future on the wicked stage, albeit radically transformed. Thus the 1974 revival altered the setting, plot and book, raided other DeSylva Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 156
- Good News! provides a useful starting point to introduce another lasting legacy of 1920s and 30s musical comedies: films. Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 157
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 News! at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.