The run closed April 27, 1935
- Opened
- November 28, 1934
- Closed
- April 27, 1935
- Performances
- 158
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- New Amsterdam Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 161st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it57 named
Helen Arden
Walter Armin
Beatrice Berens
Gertrude Berggren
Marcus Blechman
Geraldine Bork
Andre Charise
Natalia Danesi
Margaret Daum
Frank Davenport
Marguerite de Anguera
Nunez de Polanco
Madeline de Souter
Berta Donn
Tamara Doriva
John Dunbar
Frances Farnsworth
Raoul Fernandez
David Friedkin
Ernestine Henoch
Hernandez Brothers
Eleanor King
Ada Korvin
Marion Lawrence
Margaret Lee
Tom Long
Earle Macveigh
Gene Martel
Paul Mathis
Rex O Malley
Rosita Ortega
Harry Pick
Frances Reid
Hyla Roberts
Charles Scanlon
Ivy Scott
Sidney Stark
George Thornton
Rowan Tudor
Omero Valencia
Bianca Volland
Eleanor Waldon
Herman Weiner
Cliff Whitcombe
Jay Wilson
Molly Wood
Paula Yasgour
Ara Gerald
Sally Starr
8 of these 57 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 49 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
- Hassard Short, Komisarjevsky
- Choreographer
- Michael Mordkin
- Orchestrations
- credited to Russell Bennett
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
Revenge with Music is a musical comedy with book and lyrics by Howard Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz, that opened on Broadway in 1934. This was the first "book" musical by Dietz and Schwartz.
- The next musical at the New Amsterdam arrived with a touch of scandal. It was called Revenge With Music by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz. It starred torch singer Libby Holman, who had been accused of fatally shooting her wealthy husband, a Reynolds tobacco heir, but was acquitted. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 33
- Revenge with Music (1934; “You and the Night and the Music”); and Cole Porter’s You Never Know (1938; the title song and “What Is That Tune?”). The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 411
- Revenge With Music (1934) was their first book show together. Although it ran only 158 performances, it featured "You and the Night and the Music." Musical A Grand Tour the Rise Glory and Fall of An Flinn Denny Martin New York L, p. 133
- Revenge with Music, a musical play by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz based on Falla’s The Three-Cornered Hat, which ran for 158 performances. True, it may have been overshadowed by the success of Anything Goes which had opened a week earlier, but there must surely have been room for an imaginative musical that starre… The Best Musicals From Show Boat To A Chorus Line By Arthur Jackson Foreword By , p. 46
- Musicals: Poppy (23); Dear Sir (24); Oh Kay! (26); Queen High (26); Here Comes the Bride (30); Three's a Crowd (30); The Band Wagon (31); Flying Colors (32); Revenge with Music (34); Between the Devil (38); Keep Off the Grass (40); Jackpot (44); Sadie Thompson (44): The Gay Life (61); Jennie (63). The Best Musicals From Show Boat To A Chorus Line By Arthur Jackson Foreword By , p. 142
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 Revenge With Music at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.