The run closed April 18, 1936
- Opened
- November 16, 1935
- Closed
- April 18, 1936
- Performances
- 233
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Hippodrome
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 87th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it139 named
Dave Adams
Edward Angelry
Nancy Antoine
Anita Arden
Dave Ballard
Barbette
Jack Barnes
Allen Bennett
Donald Black
Florence Blair
Evelyn Bonefine
Dorothy Bradshaw
Tom Breen
Helen Brooks
William Brooks
Helen Brown
Camilla S Birds
Joseph Caplan
Violet Carson
Gloria Claire
Aina Constant
Vyna Dale
Theodore Daniels
Daniel Dansby
Willard Dashiell
Charles de Camo
Betty de Elmo
Josie Demotte
Albert Dewbeery
Virginia Donahue
Margaret Donohue
Dr Ostermeier S Doheos
Lipman Duckat
Lenze Duo
Madeline Ecklund
Sybil Elaine
Mickey Elbert
Lynn Eldredge
Phil Eppens
William J Ferry
France and Lapell
Vivian Francis
William Freeman
Roger Gerry
Joan Gray
Mona Gray
Gene Greenlaw
Grace Elizabeth Hanneford
Betty Harris
Helen Harvey
Maurine Holmes
Mary Jackson
Harry Jackson Jr
Harry Jackson Sr
Julius Johnson
Robert Johnson
Billie Joyce
Dorothy Keller
Tiny Kline
Patricia Knight
Karl Kosicsky
John Kuebler
Arthur la Fleur
Henry Lamarr
Sonny Lang
Ed Lanole
Helen Lanole
Minnie Lapell
Bob Lawrence
Edna Lee
Jack Leslie
Walter Lewis
Tom Lomas
Charlotte Lorraine
Gladys Lorraine
Jim Mandy
Carlotta Mann
Lela Manor
Lila Manor
Jim Mardy
Josephine Martin
Rudolph Mattson
William J Mccarthy
Kathryn Mcdonald
Frances Mcmasters
Gayle Mellott
Menagerie From John T Benson S Wild Animal Farm
Ray Miller
Victoria Miller
Virginia Moore
The Nagyfys
Olivette
William Parker
J H Pendergast
Jack Phillips
Claude Ratliff
Bob Reano
William Selig
Lillian Sherry
Arthur Sherwood
Arthur Sinclair
Fred Spear
Gwen Stader
Stanley S Bears
Edwina Steele
Julie Sterling
Barbara Stuart
Ethel Summerville
Takayama
The Kimris
The Nazfys
The Stonleys
Carol Tolle
Lomas Troupe
Tyana
Howard Urbach
Frances van Ritter
Litri Wagner
Herbert Waldman
Dorothy Warren
George Watts
Merrit Wells
Solon West
Cliff Whitcombe
Arnold Wilson
Effie Winter
Mae Winter
Philip Wood
11 of these 139 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 128 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
- John Murray Anderson, George Abbott, John
- Choreographer
- Allan K. Foster
- Producer
- Billy Rose
- Orchestrations
- Adolph Deutsch, Murray Cutter, Joseph Nussbaum
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
Jumbo (Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart) (Broadway, 16 November) Dominic Mchugh the Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations 2019 Ox, p. 58
- The Hippodrome, once located on 43rd Street and 6th Avenue, was a huge barn of a theatre that had not been in use for five years when showman Billy Rose decided that it would be just the place to house the spectacular circus musical he named Jumbo. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 117
- Five of the six songs from Rodgers and Hart’s Jumbo can be heard in the 1962 film, which retains the basic plot and, twenty-seven years after its Broadway debut, its original star, Jimmy Durante. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 240
- 1935 16 November: Jumbo, a circus musical with a score by Rodgers and Hart and starring Jimmy Durante in the midst of animals and circus acts, premieres at the Hippodrome and runs for 233 performances. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 21
- Their new shows included Jumbo, 1935 ("My Romance," "Little Girl Blue"); Babes in Arms, 1937 ("Where or When," "I Wish I Were in Love Again," "My Funny Valentine," "The Lady Is a Tramp"); The Boys from Syracuse, 1938 ("Falling in Love with Love," "This Can't Be Love"); By Jupiter, 1942 ("Wait Till You See Her"); and tw… Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 311
- Besides Simple Simon and America’s Sweetheart, seven other Rodgers and Hart musicals opened during the decade: Jumbo, On Your Toes, Babes in Arms, I’d Rather Be Right, I Married an Angel, The Boys from Syracuse, and Too Many Girls. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 36
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 Jumbo at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.