The run closed September 12, 1925
- Opened
- December 1, 1924
- Closed
- September 12, 1925
- Performances
- 330
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Liberty Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 82nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it52 named
Victor Arden
Ward Arnold
Adele Astaire
Jayne Auburn
Charles Bannister
James Bradbury
Patricia Clarke
Hal Crusins
Richard Devonshire
Dorothy Donovan
Edna Farrell
Jack Fraley
Alfred Hale
Peggy Hart
Maxine Henry
Dorothy Hollis
Harry Howell
Dorothy Hughes
Mary Hutchinson
Madeline Janis
Edward Jephson
Jeanearl Johnson
Grace Jones
Elmira Lahmann
Charles Lavalle
Ethel Lind
Frances Lindell
Gertrude Livingstone
Bryan Lycan
Lionel Maclyn
Lillian Mitchell
Esther Morris
Francis Murphy
Phil Ohman
Tony Otto
Jessie Payne
Peggy Pitou
Peggy Quinn
Richard Renaud
Sylvia Shawn
Daniel Sparks
Mildred Stevens
Doris Waldron
Irene Wiley
Paulette Winston
7 of these 52 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 45 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
- Felix Edwardes
- Choreographer
- Sammy Lee
- Producer
- Alex A. Aarons & Vinton Freedley
- Orchestrations
- Paul Lannin, Robert
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
Son Alex had his first major Broadway hit in LADY, BE GOOD! [Gershwin: December 1, 1924]; Alfred pro- duced 1925 flops by both composers. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 169
- The title of the show was originally Black Eyed Susan, but it opened on Broadway as Lady, Be Good! (12/1/24; 330 performances). The show was an immediate smash hit. Finally, doubts about whether the Astaires could handle the leads of a Broadway musical were put to rest. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 57
- They made their Broadway debut in 1911, at a benefit performance at the Broad- way Theatre on 42nd Street, but their act, titled “A Rainy Saturday,” was such a failure no Broadway producer would touch them. Returning to the world of the two-a-day for the next five years, they got their first true Broadway booking in th… Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 125
- Lady, Be Good! (1925), thanks to its remarkable Gershwin score and the talent of the Astaires. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 126
- Lady, Be Good! was the first Broadway show to have a complete score by the Gershwin brothers. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 188
- For worthy films with Porter’s music—prior to the 1953 adaptation of Kiss Me, Kate discussed in chapter 14—one would have to turn to the original film musicals Born to Dance (1936), Rosalie (1937), and Broadway Melody of 1940, and the modern-day biopic De-Lovely (2004), the latter chock full of stylistically updated Po… Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 239
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 Lady, Be Good! at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.