The run closed October 29, 1927
- Opened
- December 27, 1926
- Closed
- October 29, 1927
- Performances
- 333
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Vanderbilt Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 81st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it31 named
Margaret Breen
Grace Connelly
Wally Coyle
Howard Eames
Enes Early
G Douglas Evans
Sherry Gale
Barney Jackson
Louise Joyce
Maretta Kay
Leda Knapp
Fuller Mellish Jr
Harold Mellish
Beth Meredith
Margaret Miller
Jack Morton
Gordon Phillips
Patrick Rafferty
Dorothy Roy
Evelyn Ruh
Grant Simpson
Marion Trabue
Velma Valentine
8 of these 31 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 23 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
- Robert Milton
- Choreographer
- Seymour Felix
- Producer
- Lew Fields & Lyle D. Andrews
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
To cite one of Peggy-Ann ’s numbers, “Where’s That Rainbow (you hear about?).”
Speaker not recorded. Anything Goes A History of American Musical Theatre Ethan Mordden, p. 140- Peggy-Ann (12/27/26; 354 performances) was a strange musical with surrealistic overtones. The majority of the show illustrated Peggy-Ann’s dreams. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 187
- Peggy-Ann distinction as the first musical comedy to express Freud’s theories on the stage “by dealing with subconscious fears and fantasies.” Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 122
- In the 1936 On Your Toes Rodgers and Hart attempted an integration of music and drama that went beyond their successful innovations in Peggy-Ann and their unsuccessful ones in Chee-Chee. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 124
- Rodgers is the first to admit that a number of his musicals created with Hart do not even aspire to, much less achieve, the goals he first enunciated in the late 1920s with Dearest Enemy and Peggy-Ann. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 259
- Stanley Green summarizes other innovations in Peggy-Ann: “No songs were sung within the first fifteen minutes, the scenery and costumes were changed in full view of the audience, and the first and last scenes were played in almost total darkness.” Stanley Green, Broadway Musicals Show by Show. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 636
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 Peggy-Ann at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.