The run closed May 21, 1927
- Opened
- March 22, 1927
- Closed
- May 21, 1927
- Performances
- 71
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- New Amsterdam Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 780th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it105 named
Bessie Allison
Alfred Arnold
Walter Arnold
Charles Bannister
Julia Brashkova
Dorothy Bell
Dick Bennett
Dulce Bentley
Martin Berkeley
Albert Birk
Leonore Blair
Betty Block
Pearl Bradley
Mary Brady
Billie Cain
Virginia Clark
Joan Clement
Hal Clovis
Charles Conkling
Emily Cote
Peggy Cunningham
Hyacinth Curtis
Jack de Lys
Maxine Demmler
Marian Dickson
Alma Drange
Charles Eaton
Eleanor Elden
Paul Everton
Rosemary Farmer
Richard Farrell
George Ferguson
Jeanne Fonda
Ethel Forrest
Rose Gaillaird
Richard Skeets Gallagher
Charles Gibney
Elvira Gomez
Bert Gould
Alfred Hall
Pauline Hall
Aili Halmenaa
Milton Halpern
Kathryn Hamill
Vivian Harris
Jack Hughes
Max Hugo
Ray Justus
Betty Keen
Keller Sisters
Lily Kimari
Kathleen Krosby
Kathryn Lambly
Myrtle Lane
Donald Lee
Fred Lennox
Edna Locke
Al Lynch
Trude Marr
Olga Marye
Bob Maxwell
Stanley Mcclelland
Charles Mitchell
Lillian Morehouse
Bob Morris
Josephine Mostler
Henry Mowbray
Hugh Francis Murphy
Bill O Donnell
Don Oltarsh
Cheri Pelham
Dorothy Phillips
Nickie Pittell
Patricia Preston
Anna Rex
Phyllis Reynolds
Nita Rosso
Elizabeth Ryder
Lenore Shearer
Kumara Singha
Emily Slater
Hugh Sorenson
Louise Starck
Jack Talbot
Ayres Tavitt
Archibald Thompson
Peaches Tortoni
Regina Tuahinska
George Vigouroux
Eda Vittollo
Teddy Ward
Elida Webb
Princess White Deer
Martha Wilbert
Fred Wilson
Albert Wyart
Dorothy Wyatt
8 of these 105 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 97 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
- Hassard Short
- Choreographer
- Albertina Rasch, David Bennett
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
A young Ruby Keeler appeared in the cast before becoming a major film star in the Busby Berkeley movie musicals of the 1930s. Paul Whiteman, the King of Jazz, performed with his full orchestra.
April 1, 2013 Tom Hanks makes his Broadway debut playing newspaper columnist Mike McAlary in the late Nora Ephron’s biographical play, Lucky Guy. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2012 To May 2013 Robert Viagas 9th Annual Ed, p. 13
- Harry Richman sang "Lucky Day" and Pennington introduced "Black Bottom," the dance that would outdo all others in Jazz Age popularity but the Charleston. Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 238
- 'My Mother’s Eyes' (1929 film Lucky Boy; lyric by L. Wolfe Gilbert, music by Abel Baer). The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 218
- “Lucky Day” was one of the four hits from the 1926 edition of George White’s Scandals. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 416
- Still I confess that the film adaptation of On the Town loses its luster with the intrusion of Roger Edens’s ‘Main Street,’ ‘You’re Awful,’ ‘On the Town,’ ‘Count on Me,’ and ‘Prehistoric Man,’ and would prefer to hear Leonard Bernstein’s own lyrical ‘Lonely Town’ and ‘Lucky to Be Me,’ the delightfully suggestive ‘I Can… Dominic Mchugh the Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations 2019 Ox, p. 77
- The first musical in CinemaScope was Warner Bros.’ Lucky Me (released on 9 April 1954), starring Doris Day, Robert Cummings, and Phil Silvers. Dominic Mchugh the Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations 2019 Ox, p. 784
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 Lucky at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.