The run closed October 2, 1954
- Opened
- September 13, 1954
- Closed
- October 2, 1954
- Performances
- 24
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- 48th Street Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 429th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it21 named
Eddy Smith
Ray Smith
Quincy Snodgrass
Sunshine Sue
Jake Tulloch
Paul Warren
15 of these 21 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 6 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
- Uncredited
- Producer
- Barron Howard and Jack Stone
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
Lester Raymond Flatt (June 19, 1914 – May 11, 1979) was an American singer, bluegrass guitarist, and mandolinist, best known for his collaboration with banjo picker Earl Scruggs in the duo Flatt and Scruggs. Flatt's career spanned multiple decades, breaking out as a member of Bill Monroe's band during the 1940s and including multiple solo and collaboration works exclusive of Scruggs. He first reached a mainstream audience through his performance on "The Ballad of Jed Clampett", the theme for the network television series The Beverly Hillbillies, in the early 1960s.
Cole Porter's Mexican Hayride, with Bobby Clark and June Havoc, moved here from the Winter Garden in 1945. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 270
- The program for Hayride included a glossary for the uninitiated, and thus provided definitions for various musical terms (a “hamburger swing” denoted a series of one-night personal appearance dates, a “chili dipper” was a ukulele or small guitar, and a “stomach Steinway” was an accordion). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 404
- FIELDS FAMILY MEMBERS (although Herbert did not direct) for Mexican Hayride (1/28/44; 479 performances). It, too, was a crowd pleaser but not especially notable, save for the hit song, “I Love You.” June Havoc, Bobby Clark, and Wilbur Evans were the leads. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 190
- Mexican Hayride (1/28/44; 481 performances) was another hit show for Porter; the show had a less-than-top-notch score, though “I Love You” became a big hit. Bobby Clark and June Havoc starred. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 439
- Tim Carter “found no evidence for the quite persistent story that “[This Was] A Real Nice Clambake” in Carousel derives from a song (“This Was a Real Nice Hayride”) originally intended for Oklahoma!” (Tim Carter, “Oklahoma!” The Making of an American Musical, 285n23). Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 662
- Hayride was one such fixture that had played live and on radio in Richmond, Virginia, for a number of years. Its Broadway debut introduced old and new hillbilly and folk music–styled songs to New York. It lasted just three weeks, and in the intervening years there has been just one more similar revue, Broadway Opry ’79… The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 406
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 Hayride at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.