The run closed April 10, 1937
- Opened
- October 29, 1936
- Closed
- April 10, 1937
- Performances
- 183
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 136th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it63 named
May Abbey
Betty Allen
Joanne Allen
Frank Archer
Stella Bailey
Bill Benner
Jeanette Bradley
Cecile Carey
Gloria Clare
Bruce Covert
Thurston Crane
Prentiss Davis
Muriel Downey
Althea Elder
Ruth Ernst
Geoffrey Errett
Grace Gillern
Ruth Gormley
Prudence Hayes
Ethelyne Holt
Beverly Hosier
Bill Houston
Helen Hudson
Dorothy Jackson
Marguerite James
Bernard Jannsen
Lucille Johnson
Evelyn Kelly
Karl Kohrs
June le Roy
Nancy Lee
Norman Lind
Mary Joan Martin
Hazel Nevin
Marquita Nicolai
Annette Nine
Peggy Oden
Forrest Orr
Jeanette Owens
Jessica Pepper
Kay Picture
Leo Schippers
Dorothy Schwank
Jean Scott
Eve Sorel
Frances Stewart
Charlene Tucker
Dorothy Vernon
Arnita Wallace
Eleanor Wallace
Anne Wolf
12 of these 63 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 51 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
- Howard Lindsay
- Choreographer
- George Hale
- Producer
- 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
- Red, Hot, and Blue is perhaps best remembered for its billing dispute. Both Merman and Durante wanted above-title, left-side billing, because that position would ensure the name would be the first one seen by the reader. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, 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 Red, Hot, and Blue at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.