The run closed April 7, 1928
- Opened
- February 2, 1927
- Closed
- April 7, 1928
- Performances
- 494
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Ziegfeld Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 27th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it133 named
Avis Adair
Mary Alter
Melba Alter
George Anez
Martha Ann
Alfred Arnold
Antonio Arreola
Mabel Baade
Margie Baily
Anita Banton
Pauline Bartlett
Elma Bayer
Elsie Behrens
Marion Benda
Carol Bergman
Jose Betancourt
Virginia Biddle
Peggy Blake
Victor Bragamonte
Alcides Briseno
Katherine Burke
George Butler
Camille
Al Clair
Helen C Clive
Collette
Suzanne Conroy
Peggy Cornell
Jean Crittenden
Audrey Dale
Fred Dalton
Myrna Darby
Agatha Debussy
Naomi Demusie
Helen Derby
Dorothy Dickerson
Jennie Dolova
Donald Douglas
Kay English
Rass Erickson
Carlos Estrada
Lucien Farland
Elaine Field
Janet Flynn
Noel Francis
Helene Gardner
Gladys Glad
Margaret Godsworthy
Portia Grafton
Ann Hardman
Mignon Hawkes
Josephine Hayes
Gabriel Herrera
Owen Hervey
Charles Holly
Harriet Hughes
Yvonne Hughes
Theresa Hyle
Alf James
Naomi Johnson
Ivanelle Ladd
Lavergne Lambert
Valerie Lennox
Mildred Lunnay
Cookie Lunsford
Lottie Marcy
Marjorie May Martin
Earl Marvin
Robert Mathews
Dorothy May
Charles Mcclelland
Betty Mchugh
Frances Mildern
Florence Miller
Alma Moore
Vivian Morgan
Franciska Mueller
Gladys Murphy
Vincente Murtado
Leo Nash
Henry Nelthropp
Bill Otero
Walter Palm
Dorothy Patterson
Molly Peck
Walter Petrie
Jack Phillips
Rita Pischel
Margaret Purple
Harry Ratcliffe
Louise Richardson
Joseph Rogers
Pedro Rubin
Rosemary Ryder
A Safanow
Madeline Sheldon
Lillian Shields
Al Small
Jack Spinelly
Douglas Stead
Marion Strasmick
Norma Taylor
Morris Tepper
Edward Theopold
Raymond Toben
Francisco Torres
Peggy Udell
Manuel Valdespino
Bernice Varden
Richard Vernon
Juan Villasana
Rosemary Wallace
Florence Ware
Clarentine Wayne
Jean Wayne
Nondas Wayne
Dorothy Wegman
Maxine Wells
John Werner
Amy West
Marion Wilson
Ann Woods
Philomena Yvsocka
M Zaharia
Frank Zolt
George Baxter
7 of these 133 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 126 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
- John Harwood
- Choreographer
- John Harwood
- Producer
- Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.
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.
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 Rio Rita at all.
- No show page for Rio Rita. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.