The run closed February 25, 1928
- Opened
- April 25, 1927
- Closed
- February 25, 1928
- Performances
- 352
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Belasco Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 70th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it56 named
Edward Allen
Lila Anderson
Anne Austin
Harriet Britton
Arnold Brown
Murray Browne
Jack Bruns
Mary Carney
Ben Carswell
Rachel Chester
Ah Chong
Margaret Collins
Fan Conway
Peggy Conway
Nancy Corrigan
Mars Craft
Jimmie Cushman
Jerome Daley
Robert Duenwihe
Roger Gray
May Hunter
Jane Hurd
John Kneley
Anthony Knilling
Elsie Lawritson
Locust Sisters
Lyric Quartette
John Mccauley
Charles Mcclelland
William Mcgurn
Jack Mead
Celie Neska
Leo Nierle
Kendall Northrop
Gladys Pender
Beatrice Perkins
John Perkins
Olive Pierson
Florence Price
Sid Salzberg
Cecil Shires
Billy Sobel
Daniel Sparks
Jeanne Sutro
Jeanne West
Cliff Whitcombe
Beatrice Wilson
Ruth Witmer
Franker Woods
7 of these 56 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 49 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
- Alexander Leftwich
- Choreographer
- Seymour Felix
- Producer
- Lew Fields & Vincent Youmans
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 plot of Follow the Fleet (1936), like that of The Gay Divorcée, is also loosely derived from a Broadway show, Hit the Deck! from 1927, with music by Vincent Youmans. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 199
- The plot of Follow the Fleet (1936), like that of The Gay Divorcée , is also loosely derived from a Broadway show, Hit the Deck! from 1927, with music by Vincent Youmans (also the principal composer of the first of the Fred and Ginger films, Flying Down to Rio ). With The Gay Divorcée , at least one song was composed b… Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat To Sondheim and Lloyd Web, p. 199
- Youmans enjoyed little more than a decade of stage work, including two huge hits, Wildflower (1923) and Hit the Deck! (1927). Anything Goes A History of American Musical Theatre Ethan Mordden, p. 137
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 Hit The Deck! at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.