The run closed January 15, 1921
- Opened
- November 17, 1920
- Closed
- January 15, 1921
- Performances
- 71
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Apollo Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 780th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Who was in it30 named
Don Borroughs
Hattie Burks
Geraldine Burnhartt
George Clifford
Edna Fenton
Marjorie Flynn
Dorothy Gilbert
Lottie Graham
Jack Heisler
Mary Jane
Frances Lawrence
Dee Loretta
Jessie Lorraine
Betty Marshall
Laura Maverick
Tess Mayer
Peter Mott
Helen Neff
Tom O Hare
Raymond E Oswald
Rita Owin
Evelyn Palmer
Paul Porcasi
Irwin Rossa
Adelaide Starr
Howard Truesdell
Ben Welch
3 of these 30 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 27 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
- Oscar Eagle
- Choreographer
- Bert French
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
This was one of Oscar Hammerstein II's earliest Broadway credits, years before his legendary partnership with Richard Rodgers would transform American musical theatre.
* 2 performances Play by Scott Michel; Incidental music by Strouse; Directed by John Holden; Produced by Gertrude Caplin and Thelma Fingar; With Jimmie Komack and Salome Jens. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 321
- A few days after its single showing, the Times reported Hummin’ Sam would resume its engagement on April 17: Tom Johnstone had revised it after the disastrous opening; a number of new performers had joined the cast, including Jimmie Baskette, Josie “Snakehips” Oliver, Eddie Trebble, and the team of Swan and Lee; and Ed… The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 278
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 Jimmie at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.