The run closed August 16, 1919
- Opened
- May 5, 1919
- Closed
- August 16, 1919
- Performances
- 120
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 227th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it34 named
Helen Allen
Marie Ayres
Florence Bruce
Martine Burnley
Arline Chase
Alexander Clark
Lucille Darling
Rosetta Duncan
Vivian Duncan
Alice Earle
Florence Edney
Nellie Fillmore
Pauline Hall
Dorothy Hollis
Beatrice Hughes
Elsie Lawson
Helen Lovett
Gertrude Maitland
James C Marlowe
Florence Martin
Eleanor Mathison
Phyllis Munday
Grace O Connor
Anna Orr
Hildah Reeder
Scott Welsh
Lillian White
Genevieve Willment
Irene Wilson
Jay Wilson
4 of these 34 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 30 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, Fred G. Latham
- Choreographer
- Edward Royce
- Orchestrations
- Frank Saddler
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 was the first Broadway musical with a score written entirely by a woman lyricist-librettist, Anne Caldwell, who was one of the most prolific female writers on Broadway in the early 20th century.
- Dillingham’s production of She’s a Good Fellow (5/5/19; 120 performances) boasted a score by JEROME KERN and Anne Caldwell. Joseph Santley (in drag), the Duncan Sisters, Olin Howland, and Ivy Sawyer starred. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 340
- What we hear is slightly amusing, no more. But on The Jerome Kern Treasury (see below), John McGlinn conducts Jeanne Lehmann and Rebecca Luker, a women’s chorus, and an orchestra playing the song in its original scoring—and what sounds thin and hokey on the Duncans’ 78 suddenly surges with melody. Anything Goes A History of American Musical Theatre Ethan Mordden, p. 387
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 She’s A Good Fellow at all.
- No show page for She’s A Good Fellow. 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.