The run closed October 19, 1918
- Opened
- August 16, 1917
- Closed
- October 19, 1918
- Performances
- 492
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Shubert Theatre
Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 7th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it45 named
Douglas J Wood
Arthur Albro
George Allen
Warner Anderson
Laura Arnold
Gene Aubrey
Pearl Barimore
Florence Bruce
Helen Cameron
Grace Daniels
Bud Davidson
Ann Delmore
Eleanor B Fox
Pearl Germonde
Burt Hall
Jack Harvey
Virginia Heffren
Ralph J Herbert
Janet Kenny
Adele Leroy
Rena Manning
Richard Melbourne
C H Miller
Richard Morgan
Edward F Nannary
Maude Odell
Edna Rochelle
Jane Russell
Teddy Shelber
Frank Sidney
Carl Stall
Teddy Stevens
Rose Timble
Minna Valieri
Henry Ward
Fred Williams
Rose Winter
Edith Wright
John Charles Thomas
6 of these 45 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 39 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 Temple
- Choreographer
- Allan K. Foster
- Producer
- Messrs. Shubert
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 longest running book musical of the decade, Maytime was seen in three New York theatres following its engagement at the Shubert (on 44th Street west of Broadway). Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 38
- The success of Maytime proved to Romberg that he could write a show by himself. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 474
- The Shuberts modeled Maytime directly on an entertainment from one of the Central European powers with which America was at war. Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 208
- The three most important of them were The Blue Paradise (1915), a version of Edmund Eysler’s Ein Tag im Paradis ; Maytime (1917), based on Walter Kollo’s Wie einst im Mai ; and Blossom Time (1921), a fictionalised account of the life of Franz Schubert taken from Bert é’s Das Dreimäderlhaus. Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 102
- Prewar stage sources include Victor Herbert’s Naughty Marietta (1910, 136 performances) and Sweethearts (1913, 136 performances), as well as Sigmund Romberg’s Maytime (1917, 492 performances). Dominic Mchugh the Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations 2019 Ox, p. 516
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 character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Maytime at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.