The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- June 7, 1917
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 220
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Cohan & Harris Theatre
Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 90th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Who was in it4 named
4 of these 4 names have a person record behind them and link to one. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Leon Errol
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
Hitchy-Koo is a 1912 American popular song and a series of musical revues, inspired by the song, staged on Broadway each year from 1917 through 1920 and on tour in 1922. Described by Variety magazine as a "hit song of 1912", the song was composed by Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams with lyrics by L. Wolfe Gilbert. Historian Eve Golden stated that the song is "a popular standard from the second-wave of ragtime tunes". Ian Whitcomb wrote that it was one of the first American popular songs to influence musical taste and culture in the United Kingdom with the "invasion of American popular music" in 1912.
- In fact, the sum total of his Broadway work other than See America First was one song interpolation for Kern’s Miss Information in 1915 and approximately ten songs each in Hitchy-Koo of 1919 and the Greenwich Village Follies in 1924. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 71
- “Dahomey’’—revised version of “Bring "Em Back”’ from HITCHY-KOO 1920 (Fourth Edition) [October 19, 1920] Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 83
- Dahomey—revised version of Bring ‘Em Back from HITCHY-KOO 1920 [4th] [October 19, 1920]. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 58
- 'Hitchy-Koo,' produced by and starring Raymond Hitchcock with a cast that included Grace LaRue, Irene Bordoni, Frances White and Leon Errol. A Pictorial History of the American Theatre 1860 1985 Blum, p. 167
- approximately ten songs each in Hitchy-Koo of 1919 and the Greenwich Village Follies in 1924. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat To Sondheim and Lloyd Web, p. 71
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 Hitchy-Koo at all.
- When it closed.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.