The run closed December 17, 1941
- Opened
- September 22, 1938
- Closed
- December 17, 1941
- Performances
- 1,404
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Richard Rodgers Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 3rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it79 named
Billy Adams
Aloha Maids
Berg and Moore
The Charioteers
Bettymae Crane
Beverly Crane
Syd Dean
Walter Nilsson
J C Olsen
The Radio Rogues
Bonnie Reed
Mel Reed
Roberta and Ray
The Starlings
Dorothy Thomas
Shirley Wayne
Whitey S Steppers
June Winters
Happy Felton
Jay C Flippen
Joey Ayrey
Ariel Ballard
Bob Barry
Bobby Barry
Mary Barth
Joan Bergere
Ben Beri
Billy Boyle
John Callaghan
Peter Chan
William Chandler
Mildred Clark
Jim Collins
Margie Dale
Ernest di Gennaro
Dippy Diers
Marty Faber
Ruth Faber
Phil Farley
Helen Felix
Sidney Gibson
Adolph Gudel
Theo Hardeen
Renee Havel
Rita Horgan
Claire Kaktin
Rita Karyl
Phyllis Lake
Eleanor Lamanna
Dick Langdon
Terry Lasky
Evelyn Laurie
Regina Lewis
Lyda Sue
Louise Marsh
Dorothy Mathews
Gene Meredith
Anne Middleton
Eddie Murray
Pat O Cleary
Madelyn O Hara
Stephen Olsen
Barbara Pond
Blanche Poston
Harry Reso
Frank Sheppard
Dolly Spence
Mary Sutherland
Ila Marie Wilson
Charles Withers
9 of these 79 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 70 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
- Edward Duryea Dowling
- Choreographer
- Gae Foster
- Producer
- Ole Olsen & Chic Johnson (Messrs. Shubert uncredited)
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
- "Hellzapoppin’ (1938). Their rough and rowdy brand of humor went over well with audiences (if not the critics), and the revue ran for 1,404 performances (for a Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 78
- The revival opted for an overly cute retelling of the basic story against an “environmental” staging that included ten performance areas scattered about the theatre as well as four different areas for the orchestra members to play. Unfortunately, the revival set the questionable Hellzapoppin’- styled standard for futur… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 602
- Late 1936 brought perhaps the Winter Garden's best revue of all time—Vincente Minnelli's The Show Is On, a tribute to show business through the ages with Bea Lillie swinging out over the audience on a huge half-moon and dropping garters on bald-headed men, Bert Lahr immortalizing "Song of the Woodman," the Gershwins pr… At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 64
- Olsen and Johnson's Hellzapoppin transferred from the Winter Garden in 1941. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 270
- Until Hellzapoppin, Pins and Needles was the longest-running Broadway musical. It played the Labor Stage for most of its run, leaving for the Windsor Theater in June 1939. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 447
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 Hellzapoppin at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.