The run closed October 11, 1919
- Opened
- May 26, 1919
- Closed
- October 11, 1919
- Performances
- 104
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Stephen Sondheim Theatre
Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 280th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it19 named
Estar Banks
Marjorie Bentley
George W Callahan
Maurice Cass
Helen Clarke
Eleanor Daniels
Edward de Camp
Stanley H Forde
Alfred Hall
John Lowe
Cordelia Macdonald
Sager Midgley
Harold D Millar
Lorin Raker
M Rale
4 of these 19 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 15 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
- Herbert Mason, Herbert
- Choreographer
- Julian Alfred
- Orchestrations
- Frank Saddler
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 George Gershwin's first complete score for a Broadway book musical, marking the beginning of his legendary career. It opened the same week as the Actors' Equity strike that shut down Broadway for a month.
- On May 26, 1919, the theater housed a musical, GEORGE GERSHWIN’S La, La, Lucille. Alex Aarons (see AARONS AND FREEDLEY) and George B. Seitz produced the show, which was one of the few musicals produced on the Henry Miller stage. The “New Up-to-the- Minute Musical Comedy of Class and Distinction” was Gershwin’s first co… Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 256
- La, La, Lucille, the first show with a complete score by George Gershwin, debuts at the Henry Miller Theater. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 18
- Famous as the first Broadway show with a complete score by Gershwin, La, La, Lucille. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 221
- George Gershwin was only twenty years old when he wrote his first show. La, La, Lucille, in 1919. Musical A Grand Tour the Rise Glory and Fall of An Flinn Denny Martin New York L, p. 157
- George had songs in Broadway shows like Ladies First (1918), Good Morning, Judge (1919) and The Lady in Red (1919); and finally wrote his first full score for La, La, Lucille in 1919. A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 121
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 La, La, Lucille at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.