The run closed June 15, 1940
- Opened
- April 4, 1940
- Closed
- June 15, 1940
- Performances
- 84
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Shubert Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 260th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it49 named
Irene Austin
Eva Condon
Ronnie Cunningham
Sigrid Dagnie
Kay Duncan
Eleanor Eberle
Marta Eggert
Janet Fox
Miriam Franklin
William Geery
Joseph Granville
George Griffith
Bunnie Hightower
Louis Hightower
Gloria Hope
Marguerite James
Michael Moore
Richard Moore
Marie Nash
Frederic Nay
Kay Picture
Burton Pierce
Marie Louise Quevli
Jane Richardson
Harry Rogue
Joseph Scandur
Jack Seymour
Robert Shanley
Sharkey
Hollace Shaw
Billy Skipper Jr
Hilda Spong
Lyda Sue
Carl Trees
Jack Whitney
14 of these 49 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 35 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
- Joshua Logan
- Choreographer
- Robert Alton
- Orchestrations
- Hans Spialek
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
Higher and Higher is a musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and book by Gladys Hurlbut and Joshua Logan and produced by Dwight Deere Wiman. It ran on Broadway for 84 performances in 1940.
- During the tryout, her name had been billed below the title, but because of her endearing performance the producers placed her name above, along with Brown’s. But for all her grand notices, Worth never again appeared in a Broadway musical. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 184
- During the 1940s, Rodgers and Hart suffered one of their rare flops, Higher and Higher (1940), at the Shubert; At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 102
- Higher and Higher (4/4/40; 84 performances). The elements for success all seemed to be in place: a cast including Shirley Ross (returning from Hollywood), Marta Eggerth, Jack Haley, Leif Erickson, Robert Rounseville, and Sharkey the Seal; a libretto by Joshua Logan and Gladys Hurlbut, and direction by Logan; and a hit… Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 502
- Higher and Higher, 196, 309, 449, 480 Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 647
- Friendly Enemy Gerald Marks Sam Lerner Hold It! 1948 Encyclopedia of Theatre Music A Comprehensive Listing of Lewine Richard Simon Al, p. 54
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 Higher and Higher at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.