The run closed August 10, 1918
- Opened
- February 1, 1918
- Closed
- August 10, 1918
- Performances
- 219
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Princess Theatre
Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 95th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it30 named
Dorothy Allan
Billie Booker
Bobby Brewster
Charles Columbus
May Elsie
Harry Fisher
Mildred Fisher
Bettie Gereaux
Charles Hartmann
Edna Hettler
Irving Jackson
Elsie Lewis
Reginald Mason
Gypsy Mooney
J Randall Phelan
Mildred Roland
Jeanne Sparry
Mabel Stanford
Jack Vincent
Wililam Walsh
Lois Whitney
9 of these 30 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 21 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 Royce, Robert Milton
- Choreographer
- Edward Royce
- Producer
- William Elliott & F. Ray Comstock
- Orchestrations
- by
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
'Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern are my favourite indoor sport. I like the way they go about a musical comedy. I like the way that action slides casually into songs.' As Dorothy Parker wrote of Oh, Lady! Lady!!
Speaker not recorded. Broadway Babies Say Goodnight Musicals Then and Now Mark Steyn, p. 64- The second offering did, in fact, indicate greater assurance in fulfilling the goals that the Princess management had initially outlined. Very Good Eddie not only adhered to the general plan but also set the style and standard for three subsequent Kern musicals written with Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse — Oh, Boy! , Leave… Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 36
- Curiously, the best known song written for Oh, Lady! Lady!! was never used in the show. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 40
- whose book for Oh, Kay! retained something of the Anglo-American flavor or their previous Oh, Boy! and Oh, Lady! Lady!! Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 62
- Very Good Eddie not only adhered to the general plan but also set the style and standard for three subsequent Kern musicals written with Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse — Oh, Boy!, Leave It to Jane, and Oh, Lady! Lady!!— that formed the seminal quartet known as the Princess Theatre Musicals. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 47
- The trio continued their advancement of the musical theater form with the fifth Princess Theater show and their last collaboration, Oh, Lady! Lady! (2/ 1/18; 219 performances), with Vivienne Segal. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 447
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, Lady! Lady! at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.