Paris, 1928

The run closed March 23, 1929

Opened

October 8, 1928

Closed

March 23, 1929

Performances

195

Previews

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Theatre

Music Box Theatre

Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 227th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Paris 2 more that season

Who was in it9 named

Irene Bordoni1885–1953

Arthur Margetson—

L

Louise Closser Hale—

I

Irving Aaronson and His Commanders—

Elizabeth Chester
Florence Edney
Reed Hamilton
Eric Kalkhurst
Theodore St John

4 of these 9 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 5 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

W.H. Gilmore

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

This was Cole Porter's first significant Broadway hit, featuring the song 'Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love,' which became one of his signature standards and established his reputation for witty, sophisticated lyrics.

• The action takes place in and around Paris in 1906. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 622
• The smash hit from the show was “April in Paris.” Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 496
• while Ben Franklin in Paris was a personal triumph, it was only a modest success. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 223
• Although his first success, Paris, would not arrive for another twelve years, Porte Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 70
• When the following year Rodgers and Hart were preoccupied with A Connecticut Yankee, Porter was easily persuaded to leave Europe and bring Paris to New York. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 71

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 Paris at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.