The run closed June 18, 1921
- Opened
- November 18, 1919
- Closed
- June 18, 1921
- Performances
- 670
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Vanderbilt Theatre
Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 4th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Irene 2 more that season
| 1923 | Jolsons 59th Street Theatre Revival · Edward Royce | 16 perf. |
| 1973 | Minskoff Theatre Revival · Gower Champion | 594 perf. |
Who was in it40 named
Abner Barnhart
Arden Benlian
Harry Blake
Cornelia Burchell
Arthur Burckly
Robert Burns
Austin Clark
Walter Croft
Vivian Davidson
Betty de Grasse
Marion Dockerill
George Eising
Irene Enright
Josephine Kernell
Ethel Kinley
Lillian Lee
John B Litel
Erica Mackay
Bernice Mccabe
John Mcsorley
Constance Melville
Gladys Miller
Helen Miller
Florence Mills
Margaret Moore
Adele Ormiston
Edna Ross
Al Watson
Alfred Watson
Dorothy Whitmore
Patti Harrold
Adele Rowland
8 of these 40 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 32 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 Royce
- Choreographer
- Edward Royce
- Producer
- Carle Carlton & Joseph McCarthy
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.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
The Minskoff Theatre opened on March 13, 1973, with a lavish revival of the 1919 musical Irene. Debbie Reynolds played the title role and sang the show's classic, 'Alice Blue Gown.' The cast also included Patsy Kelly, Monte Markham, Janie Sell, Ruth Warrick, Carmen. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 347
- Bobbie Watson in Irene portrayed an actual homosexual character. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 290
- The first show to play the theater, Irene (3/13/73, 604 performances), seemed to promise a bright future for the new theater. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 376
- Victor Herbert’s Naughty Marietta (1910), Jerome Kern’s so-called Princess Theatre Shows (1915–1918) with books and lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton (especially Very Good Eddie and Leave It to Jane), Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthy’s Irene (1919), Sigmund Romberg’s The Student Prince in Heidelberg (1924), Vin… Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 29
- Both Irene and No, No, Nanette (670 and 321 performances, respectively, in their inaugural runs) enjoyed popular revivals in the early 1970s (No, No, Nanette in 1971 [861 performances] and Irene in 1973 [604 performances]). Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 611
- Irene, a Cinderella story about a shop girl who marries an heir, opens at the Vanderbilt Theater and plays for 675 performances, at the time the longest run in Broadway history. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 18
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 Irene at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.