The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- November 8, 1926
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 256
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 143rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Other stagings of Oh, Kay! 3 more that season
| 1927 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 1928 | Century Theatre Revival · Harry Howell | 16 perf. |
| 1990 | Richard Rodgers Theatre Revival · Dan Siretta | 77 perf. |
Who was in it60 named
Adrienne Armond
Sascha Beaumont
Marcia Bell
Bonnie Blackwood
Dowell Brown
Grace Carroll
Jean Carroll
Melville Chapman
Ted Daniels
Eugene Day
Frances Defoe
Ann Ecklund
Madeleine Fairbanks
Marion Fairbanks
Kappie Fay
Al Fisher
Jack Fraley
Amy Frank
Elsie Frank
Frank Gardiner
Bob Gebhardt
Janette Gilmore
Anita Gordon
Sara Jane Heliker
Peggy Johnstone
Grace Jones
Dot Justin
Lionel Maclyn
Pansy Maness
Maxine Marshall
Tom Martin
Gloria Murray
Elsie Neal
Blanche O Donahue
Marie Otto
Caroline Phillips
Peggy Quinn
Dorothy Saunders
Harry T Shannon
Alan Stevens
Frances Stone
Jacques Stone
May Sullivan
Betty Vane
Betty Waxton
Claire Wayne
Jean Wayne
Amy Weber
Justine Welch
Ted White
Polly Williams
Paulette Winston
8 of these 60 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 52 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
- John Harwood, John
- Choreographer
- Sammy Lee
- Producer
- Alex A. Aarons & Vinton Freedley
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
“It was the opposite of plagiarism; we'll call it donorism.” —Howard Dietz on Ira Gershwin, who gave him credit for the lyrics of the title song for which Dietz wrote a rejected lyric. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 238
- David Merrick returned to Broadway in 1990 with a revival of the Gershwins's musical Oh, Kay!, but it ran for only 77 performances. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 203
- Gertrude Lawrence didn’t make her entrance in Oh, Kay! until forty minutes into the first act. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 240
- Gershwin shows that, in revival, have been transformed into barely recognizable but highly accessible and commercially successful adaptations (My One and Only [1983], Oh, Kay! [199 Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 41
- The conclusion of the Wedding Dream (including the Mendelssohn Endelssohn and Lohengrin and Bear It material) is borrowed from another wedding song, “Bride and Groom,” in the act I finale of Ira’s collaboration with his brother George, Oh, Kay! (1926), starring Lawrence as Lady Kay. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 653
- Oh, Kay!, with a score by George and Ira Gershwin (including \"Someone to Watch over Me\") and starring Gertrude Lawrence, opens at the Imperial Theater. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 19
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 Oh, Kay! at all.
- When it closed.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.