The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- September 2, 1930
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 63
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 393rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Who was in it17 named
Yukona Cameron
Jay C Flippen
Helen Gray
Kay Hamill
Gus Hyland
Davey Jones
Kay Lazelle
Eleanor Moffett
Joey Ray
Tashamira
Dorothy Waller
Ned Wever
5 of these 17 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 12 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
- Dwight Deere Wiman
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
The Second Little Show is a musical revue with lyrics by Howard Dietz and music mostly by Arthur Schwartz. Produced by William A. Brady, Jr. and Dwight Deere Wiman, in association with Tom Weatherly, the Broadway production opened at the Royale Theatre on September 2, 1930 and closed in October 1930, after 63 performances. Directed by Wiman and Monty Woolley and choreographed by Dave Gould, with scenic design by Jo Mielziner, the cast included Jay C. Flippen, Gloria Grafton, and Al Trahan. This was the second in a series of Little Shows, notable for the song "Sing Something Simple" with words and music by Herman Hupfeld, introduced by Ruth Tester. Other songs include "I Like Your Face" (orig…
- THE SECOND LITTLE SHOW [Schwartz: September 2, 1930} — without Webb, Holman and Allen—had done poorly; this final edi- tion, without even Schwartz and Dietz, fared little better. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 318
- What a Young Girl Ought to Know—revised version of What a Case I’ve Got on You from SECOND LITTLE SHOW [September 2, 1930] Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 169
- THE SECOND LITTLE SHOW [Schwartz: September 2, 1930]—without Webb, Holman, and Allen—had done poorly. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 197
- But everyone was disappointed with The Second Little Show, which opened the month before Three’s a Crowd premiered: like the first edition, the score was mostly by Dietz and Schwartz, but it didn’t produce an evergreen, and critics and audiences missed Webb, Allen, and Holman. As a result, the second edition collapsed… The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 90
- 'Sing Something Simple' (The Second Little Show; lyric and music by Herman Hupfeld) The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 107
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 Second Little Show at all.
- When it closed.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.