The run closed August 3, 1918
- Opened
- May 22, 1918
- Closed
- August 3, 1918
- Performances
- 85
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Astor Theatre
Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 335th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it32 named
Gus Baci
Mae Carmen
Constance Carper
Sydney Chon
Ruth Collins
Frank Derr
H Nelson Dickson
Florence Eldridge
Evelyn Ferris
Alan Hale Sr
Claire Hillier
Olive Jacqueline
Frances Kaufman
Arthur Lipson
Albertine Marlowe
Janet Mcilwaine
Eddy Meyers
Edna Munsey
Claire Nagle
Bert Pullaney
Norah Sprague
Phil Stanton
Charlotte Wakefield
Gladys White
Lilyan White
Clothilde Woods
6 of these 32 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 26 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
- Edward Royce
- Choreographer
- Robert Marks
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
This Jerome Kern musical was based on the 1913 play Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo. Frank Morgan, who would later become famous as the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz, appeared in an early stage role.
- “Two Heads Are Better Than One” (lyric by Kern and Greene)— see ROCK-A-BYE BABY [May 22, 1918] Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 56
- Two Heads Are Better Than One [lyric by Kern and Greene]—see ROCK-A-BYE BABY [May 22, 1918] Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 43
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 Rock-a-Bye Baby at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.