The run closed July 5, 1952
- Opened
- December 26, 1931
- Closed
- July 5, 1952
- Performances
- 441
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Music Box Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 19th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Of Thee I Sing 1 more that season
| 1952 | Ziegfeld Theatre Revival · Jack Donohue | 72 perf. |
Who was in it68 named
Ruth Adams
Dave Allman
Kathleen Ayres
Bruce Barclay
Vivian Barry
Charles Bennett
Leslie Bingham
Bobbie Brodsley
Robert Burton
Martha Carroll
Mary Carroll
Ray Clarke
Charles Conklin
Tom Curley
Tom Draak
Leon Dunar
Ann Ecklund
Frank Erickson
Jack Fago
Michael Forbes
Olgene Foster
Virginia Franck
Frank Gagen
Dorothy Graves
Yvonne Gray
Peggy Greene
Sulo Hevonpaa
Walter Hinger
Milton Hollander
Georgette Lampsi
Terry Lawlor
David Lawrence
Martin le Roy
Jack Linton
Lillian Lorray
Martha Maggard
Sam Mann
Mary Mascher
John Mccahill
Charles Mcclelland
Jake Vander Meulen
Frank Miller
Harold Moffet
Richard Neely
Hazzard Newberry
Anita Pam
Jack Ray
Billie Seward
Pete Shance
Grenna Sloane
Adele Smith
Barbara Smith
Baun Sturtz
Peggy Thomas
Patricia Whitney
Jessica Worth
12 of these 68 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 56 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.
Characters11 roles recorded
William Gaxton John P. Wintergreen
Lois Moran Mary Turner
Grace Brinkley Diana Devereaux
Victor Moore Alexander Throttlebottom
George E. Mack Senator Robert F. Lyons
Edward H. Robins Senator Carver Jones
Dudley Clements Matthew Arnold Fulton
Sam Mann Louis Lippman
Florenz Ames The French Ambassador
Harold Moffet Francis X. Gilhooney
George Murphy Sam Jenkins
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Creative team
- Director
- George S. Kaufman
- Choreographer
- George Hale
- Producer
- Sam H. Harris
- Orchestrations
- Robert R
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 work, however, was considered not quite up to the satirical standards set by Of Thee I Sing, with which it was most frequently compared. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 105
- After a disastrous tryout in Boston, however, the plot was largely discarded as Clark leered, pranced, chased Amazonian show girls, blew soap bubbles out of a trumpet, masqueraded as a female barber, and, without looking, tossed his hat clear across the stage and onto a hatrack. During the run, Fran Warren replaced Bet… Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 138
- The Gershwin brothers, George S. Kaufman, and Morrie Ryskind had led the way with Strike Up the Band and Of Thee I Sing, and now it was the turn of Irving Berlin and Moss Hart (with Kaufman joining the project as director). Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 103
- Victor Moore played a Vice President in Of Thee I Sing and Let 'Em Eat Cake, before his role as Senator Oliver P. Loganberry. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 134
- initially the production was planned as a political satire in the tradition of Of Thee I Sing. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 163
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 recording is held for Of Thee I Sing at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.