The run closed January 6, 1934
- Opened
- October 21, 1933
- Closed
- January 6, 1934
- Performances
- 90
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 293rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it80 named
Kay Adams
Ruth Adams
Kathleen Ayres
Peggy Bancroft
Bruce Barclay
Vivian Barry
Paul Brachard
Alice Burrage
Robert Burton
Gordon Clark
Ray Clarke
Charles Conklin
Tom Curley
Nonie Dale
Gail Darling
Bryan Davis
Alyce Downey
Leon Dunar
Enes Early
Vance Elliott
Louise Estes
Charles Flower
Consuelo Flowerton
Michael Forbes
Olgene Foster
Charles Fowler
Frank Gagen
Dorothy Graves
Yvonne Gray
Peggy Green
David Gross
Ethel Hampton
Evelyn Hannons
Tom Harris
Pat Hastings
Don Hudson
Viola Hunter
Amalie Ideal
Phil King
George Kirk
Terry Lawlor
David Lawrence
Kay Lazell
Al Lefebevre
Betty Lee
Martin Leroy
Ed Loud
Mary Jo Matthews
Harold Moffet
Richard Neely
Hazzard Newberry
Ruth Porter
Victor Pullman
Abe Reynolds
W Francis Robertson
Martin Sheppard
Grenna Sloane
Steward Steppler
Harold Sternberg
Baun Sturtz
Richard Temple
Morris Tepper
Martha Tibbetts
Norman van Emburgh
John Walsh
Elinor Witte
Wanda Wood
Grace Worth
Jessica Worth
11 of these 80 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 69 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
- George S. Kaufman
- Choreographer
- Eugene Van Grona, Ned McGurn
- Orchestrations
- Edward Powell
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
Let 'Em Eat Cake is a 1933 Broadway musical with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. A political satire, it tells the story of a fictional American president who fails to get reelected. Inspired by fascism in Europe, he and the former vice president decide to overthrow the government. The sequel to the Pulitzer prize-winning Of Thee I Sing, a light-hearted comedy about the election of President Wintergreen, Let 'Em Eat Cake fell flat with audiences and critics when it opened in October 1933 due to its much darker tone. A review in TIME magazine panned the libretto for "[wandering] dreamily away into demented unreality" with its…
The Imperial Theatre featuring Let ‘Em Eat Cake, 1933. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 275
- In October 1933, a sequel, Let 'Em Eat Cake, written by the same writers and featuring the original leading players, opened on Broadway. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 102
- LET ‘EM EAT CAKE—like PARDON MY ENGLISH—was pretty much lost for more than fifty years, until a 1987 concert version (in tandem with OF THEE I SING) led to a full recording of the score. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 102
- October 1933 brought the third political musical by the Gershwins, Kaufman and Ryskind, Let ‘em Eat Cake. This time Wintergreen and his Vice-President, Throttlebottom, fail to be elected for a second term, so they form a Fascist movement to overthrow the elected government. The material was exceedingly dark, and the sh… A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 160
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 Let ‘Em Eat Cake at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.