The run closed May 21, 1938
- Opened
- December 1, 1937
- Closed
- May 21, 1938
- Performances
- 200
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Winter Garden Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 118th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it73 named
Al Gordon S Dogs
Anthony Albert
Joanna Allen
Peggy Badey
Margorie Baglin
Al Baron
Dorothy Bird
Bidda Blakely
The Briants
Florine Callahan
Constance Carr
Leo Chalzel
William Chandler
Carrol Clarke
Harold Cook
Ford Crane
Maxine Darrell
Louise de Forrest
Helene Ecklund
Will Ferry
The Five Reillys
Franklyn Fox
Joel Friend
Peggy Gallimore
Phillip Gordon
Helen Hannan
William Hawley
Rita Horgan
Beverly Hosier
Frank Howard
Arthur Kay
Evelyn Laurie
Mary Joan Martin
Mary Meyer
Mickey Moore
Evelyn Moser
Edward Murray
Dagmar Nilsson
Mary Ann Parker
Wynelle Patterson
Bill Pillick
Leon Polinsky
Don Popikoff
Jo Raskin
Gracie Reilly
Roy Roberts
Marcel Rousseau
Sid Salzer
Charles Senna
Ruth Shaw
John Smedberg
Virginia Smith
Sue Hastings Marionettes
Barbara Towne
Marie Vanneman
Virginia Vonne
Carol Louise Wanderman
Armonce Wilkins
Castle Williams
Charles Collins
John Elliott
Charles la Torre
Dorothy Stone
10 of these 73 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 63 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
- Vincente Minnelli, Howard Lindsay
- Choreographer
- Agnes de Mille, Robert Alton
- Producer
- Messrs. Shubert
- Orchestrations
- Don Walker
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
She then went to Europe, where she performed in Paris, Copenhagen, and London. While in London she got her first theatrical commission, to choreograph the CoLe Porter musical Nymph Errant (10/6/33). The show, starring Gertrude Lawrence, was mildly successful but did not cross the Atlantic. After another London assignment (Why Not Tonight?) she made her Broadway choreographic debut with Hooray for… Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 148
- Alton, Robert Anything Goes By Jupiter DuBarry Was a Lady Hooray for What! Leave It to Me! Life Begins at 8:40 Me and Juliet Panama Hattie Show Is On, The Too Many Girls Ziegfeld Follies Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 387
- “Napoleon” commented on the ephemeral nature of life, and had first been heard as “Napoleon’s a Pastry” in the 1937 Broadway musical Hooray for What! where it was introduced by Jack Whiting and June Clyde. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 664
- In 1937 Ed Wynn moved in with a marvelous antiwar musical Hooray for What! by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, Howard Lindsay, and Russel Crouse. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 64
- Hooray for What! (12/1/37; 199 performances) was Harburg’s first book show, written in collaboration with Arlen. The show starred June Clyde, Vivian Vance, Jack Whiting, and Ed Wynn. Songs included “Down with Love,” “Moanin’ in the Mornin’,” and ‘In the Shade of the New Apple Tree.” Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 241
- In 1937, Harburg tried to inject a warning about warmongering into Hooray for What!, but Ed Wynn and librettists Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse dampened the ardor and pulled the show back to farce and light comedy. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 40
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 Hooray For What! at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.