The run closed April 8, 1916
- Opened
- March 28, 1916
- Closed
- April 8, 1916
- Performances
- 15
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Maxine Elliott's Theatre
Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 823rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it38 named
Felix Adler
Bettina Best
Eric Block
Jack Bohn
Betty Brewster
Lloyd Carpenter
Robert Casey
Irma Chase
Adele Christy
Ernest Clarke
Edna Coigne
Ruth Darby
Henry Red Eagle
Sam Edwards
John Heath Goldsworthy
Leo Gordon
Algernon Grieg
Jack Hagner
Helen Herendeen
Mary Howard
Roma June
Raymond Klages
Margaret Mackenzie
Dorothy Mead
Gypsy O Brien
Harry Pahl
Clara Palmer
Lucine Paula
Daisy Rudd
Don Seaton
Frank Shephard
Perry C Smith
Jack Varnell
William Warren
4 of these 38 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 34 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
- J.H. Benrimo
- Choreographer
- Edward Hutchinson, Theodore Kosloff
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
See America First is a comic opera with a book by T. Lawrason Riggs and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The first work by Porter to be produced on Broadway, it was a critical and commercial flop.
- COLE PorTER’s first attempt at Broadway, See America First (3/28/16; 15 performances), was unappreciated. In the cast was future movie star Clifton Webb, then a popular musical comedy performer. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 365
- Porter’s first break came when he met Elisabeth Marbury, who produced many of Jerome Kern’s early hits. Their show entitled See America First opened at the Mina Elliotr’s Theatre with Clifton Webb in the lead. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 437
- See America First, 343, 415 Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 683
- r had already produced a musical on Broadway, See America First (1916), before Gershwin or Rodgers had begun their Broadway careers and only one year after Kern had inaugurated his series of distinctive musicals at the Princess Theatre. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 71
- Although his first full score for Broadway, See America First (1916), was a failure, he kept persevering with relatively successful shows during the 1920s. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 314
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 See America First at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.