The run closed January 19, 1918
- Opened
- August 28, 1917
- Closed
- January 19, 1918
- Performances
- 167
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Longacre Theatre
Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 141st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it24 named
Frances Burns
Jane Carroll
D E Charles
Arline Chase
Dan Collyer
Will C Crimans
Lillian Cullen
Rudolf Cutten
Thomas Delmar
Harry Forbes
Frederic Graham
Algernon Grieg
Allan Kelly
Marie King
Catherine Mack
Tess Mayer
Anna Orr
Robert G Pitkin
Helen Rich
5 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 19 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
- Edward Royce
- Choreographer
- Edward Royce
- Producer
- William Elliot, F. Ray Comstock, Morris Gest
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
- The second offering did, in fact, indicate greater assurance in fulfilling the goals that the Princess management had initially outlined. Very Good Eddie not only adhered to the general plan but also set the style and standard for three subsequent Kern musicals written with Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse — Oh, Boy! , Leave… Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 36
- Leave It to Jane takes place at good old Atwater College, where everyone is concerned about the Thanksgiving Day football game with rival Bingham. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 39
- Very Good Eddie not only adhered to the general plan but also set the style and standard for three subsequent Kern musicals written with Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse — Oh, Boy!, Leave It to Jane, and Oh, Lady! Lady!!— that formed the seminal quartet known as the Princess Theatre Musicals. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 47
- It was the Jerome Kern/P.G. Wodehouse/Guy Bolton winner Leave It to Jane, about a football-crazy college campus. Among the Kern gems were: The Sirens Song, The Crickets Are Calling, Cleopatterer, and the lilting title song. The Longacre had full houses for 167 performances. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 91
- One reason was a spate of Off-Broadway revivals including Leave It to Jane, Anything Goes, and Best Foot Forward) Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 262
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 Leave It to Jane at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.