The run closed October 17, 1925
- Opened
- August 6, 1925
- Closed
- October 17, 1925
- Performances
- 84
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Astor Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 688th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it33 named
Winifred Beck
Isabelle Brown
Adelaide Candee
Sylvia Carol
Willa de Brauw
Dorothy Deeder
George Dobbs
Berta Donn
Helen Doyle
Frances Ebert
Jay C Flippen
Ethel Fuller
Claire Grenville
Shirley Gustin
Winifred Harris
Maurice Holland
Millie James
Lee Kohlmar
Joan Lyons
Aileen Meehan
Mabel Olsen
Jacqueline Paige
Beatrice Perkins
Bebe Stanton
Gladys Walton
Flora Watson
Beatrice Wendell
June Zimmerman
5 of these 33 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 28 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
- J. C. Huffman
- Choreographer
- Larry Ceballos
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
John Frederick Coots, better known as J. Fred Coots or Fred Coots, (May 2, 1897 – April 8, 1985) was an American songwriter. He composed more than 700 popular songs and more than a dozen Broadway shows. In 1934, Coots wrote the melody with his then chief collaborator, lyricist Haven Gillespie, for the biggest success of either man's career, "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town." The song became one of the biggest sellers in American history. In 1934, when Gillespie brought him the lyrics to "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town", Coots developed the outline of the melody in just ten minutes. Coots took the song to his publisher, Leo Feist, who liked it but thought it was "a kids' song" and didn't expect…
- Their fifteen Broadway shows of the 1920s included three in 1925 (Garrick Gaieties, June Days and Dearest Enemy), three in 1926 (The Girl Friend, Peggy-Ann and Betsy), and three in 1928 (She’s My Baby, Present Arms and Chee-Chee). A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 120
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 June Days at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.