The run closed June 28, 1924
- Opened
- September 3, 1923
- Closed
- June 28, 1924
- Performances
- 346
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Apollo Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 75th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Who was in it34 named
Jimmy Barry
Linelle Blackburn
Harry Blake
Hilda Burt
Marion Chambers
Hugh Chilvers
Elizabeth Collins
Lucretia Craig
Helen Evans
Emma Janvier
Norman Jefferson
Evelyn Jerrell
Virginia Kelley
Nancy Lay
Kathleen Mclaughlin
Helen Miade
Thomas Monahan
Wally Myers
Ackland Powell
Gene Sinclair
Mildred Stevens
Maude Ream Stover
Violet Vale
Walter Wandell
Al Watson
Victoria White
Dorothy Whiteford
Beatrice Wilson
Devah Worrell
5 of these 34 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 29 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
- Choreographer
- Julian Alfred
- Producer
- Philip Goodman
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.
Recordings 5 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Poppy, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
- W. C. Fields demonstrates his latest musical creation, the kadoola-kadoola. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 65
- During the tryout, the traditional song “Pretty Poppy” was deleted. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 237
- He played con man Eustace McGargle in the musical comedy Poppy (1923); the show’s unsigned review in the New York Times reported that Fields “has never been quite so amusing as he is in ‘Poppy’—nor so versatile,” adding that he “creates comedy where certainly none existed in the libretto.” Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 146
- Although unknown today, Poppy ran for an entire season, most unusual at the time. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 312
- His first hit was “Alibi Baby’? (music by Stephen Jones) from POPPY [September 3, 1923], although the show’s contractual lyricist refused him credit. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 263
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.
- Which of the 5 recordings of Poppy document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.