The run closed March 11, 1939
- Opened
- October 19, 1938
- Closed
- March 11, 1939
- Performances
- 168
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 147th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it33 named
Mark Smith
Albert Allen
Matthias Ammann
Edith Angold
Charles Arnt
Donald Black
Jane Brotherton
Helen Carroll
Richard Cowdery
Carol Dies
Dow Fonda
Bruce Hamilton
Margaret Maclaren
Ruth Mamel
William Marel
Harry Meehan
Warde Peters
James Phillips
Francis Pierlot
Rufus Smith
Margaret Stewart
William Wahlert
George Watts
John E Young
Erika Zaranova
8 of these 33 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 25 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
- Joshua Logan
- Choreographer
- Carl Randall, Edwin Denby
- Producer
- Playwrights’ Company
- Orchestrations
- Kurt Weill
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
- 'Spring Isn’t Everything’ is an interesting companion piece to both Huston’s “September Song” from Knickerbocker Holiday and Take Me Along ’s “Staying Young.” Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 829
- Logan’s first musical assignment was for the Rodgers and Hart show I Married an Angel (5/11/38; 338 performances) during which he began a long working relationship with Richard Rodgers. He went on to direct many of Broadway’s top musicals, including Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s Knickerbocker Holiday (10/19/38; 168… Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 330
- Knickerbocker Holiday (10/19/38; 168 performances) opened only 4 days after Abe Lincoln in Illinois. It starred Walter Huston, and it introduced the classic ballad “September Song.” Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 431
- Anderson couldn't pull it off with Knickerbocker Holiday, nor could Weill and Alan Jay Lerner with Love Life. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 39
- Beginning his musical career directing the hits Knickerbocker Holiday, By Jupiter, and This Is the Army, Logan became a hot commodity when he directed the wonderful Annie Get Your Gun in 1946. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 309
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 Knickerbocker Holiday at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.