The run closed June 15, 1929
- Opened
- December 26, 1928
- Closed
- June 15, 1929
- Performances
- 198
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 220th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it51 named
Ethel Allen
Annette Atherton
James Bradleigh
Bobby Brodsley
Donald Brown
Shirley Buford
Bob Burk
Harriet Carling
Donn Carney
Wilfred Clark
Elizabeth Crandall
Dorothy Croyle
Florence Earle
Jean Egan
Alice Fischer
Helen Fried
Wanda Gall
Elvira Giersdorf
Irene Giersdorf
Rae Giersdorf
Carroll Glucas
Madeline Grey
Edward Hackett
Albert Hewitt
Doris Jay
Henrietta Kay
George C Lehrian
Betty Lockwood
Marjorie May Martin
Jerome Maxwell
David Morton
Mae Muth
Frances Norton
Emmy Lou Petri
Valerie Petri
Larry Regan
Patricia Ross
Dorothy Roy
Paula Sands
Charles Scott
Jane Sherman
Billy Taylor
Peggy Tebbs
Inez Tremble
Jae Voll
6 of these 51 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 45 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
- John Murray Anderson, John
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 an early score by the legendary team of Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields, who were simultaneously conquering Broadway with the revue Blackbirds of 1928. Lew Fields (of Weber and Fields fame) both produced and starred.
- The opening attraction at Erlanger's on the night of September 26, 1927, was George M. Cohan's musical Merry Malones, which got the new theatre off to a good start. It played for 192 performances, then returned for 16 additional performances. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 275
- Dorothy Fields, whose first book musical, Hello, Daddy, he produced. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 81
- Mary Lawlor was a pretty big star in her time. The titles of the shows in which she appeared give a sense of her talents: No, No, Nanette; Queen High; Cross My Heart; Hello, Daddy; You Said It—and Good News, of course. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 142
- Lew’s final book musical was the aptly titled HELLO, DADDY! [December 26, 1928]—written by Herbert and Dorothy (with Jimmy McHugh). Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 196
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 Hello, Daddy at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.