The run closed June 28, 1924
- Opened
- April 8, 1924
- Closed
- June 28, 1924
- Performances
- 95
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Fulton Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 607th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it45 named
Alice Akers
Terry Blaine
Roger Buckley
Rudolph Cameron
Betty Campbell
Jean Castleton
Jayne Chesney
May Clark
Virginia Clark
Marian Dickson
Marjorie Eggleston
Jean Emerson
Edward Finley
Frieda Fitzgerald
Irene Griffith
Myra Hampton
Dorothy Janice
Katherine Kohler
Edouard Lefebvre
Harry Lillford
Harriet Marned
Earl Marvin
Dana Mayo
Marietta O Brien
George O Donnell
Marion Phillips
William Powers
Eugene Revere
Phyllis Reynolds
Charles Sabin
Louise Segal Converse
George Spelvin
George Sylvester
Gertrude Waixel
Charlotte Wakefield
Doris Waldron
Winthrop Wayne
Dorothy West
Albert White
Albert Wyart
5 of these 45 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 40 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
- Fred G. Latham, Julian Alfred
- Choreographer
- Julian Alfred
- Orchestrations
- Rob
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 last collaboration of the famed trio of Bolton, Wodehouse, and Kern, who had revolutionized the American musical with their Princess Theatre shows in the 1910s.
Morris Gest, P.G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton, F. Ray Comstock and Jerome Kern in Detroit for the opening of Sitting Pretty, the seventh and most recent of the Princess Theatre Intimate Musical Comedies, April 8, 1924.
Speaker not recorded. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 301‘Bongo on the Congo’ from Sitting Pretty, for instance.
Speaker not recorded. The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin Gershwin Ira 1896 1983, p. 104- Three years before Show Boat Kern quoted the openings of both the first movement and the even more well-known slow movement from Dvořák’s symphony in the dance music of “Shufflin’ Sam” (from Sitting Pretty), perhaps as a musical pun to support Sam’s motto, “This old world’s no place to cry and be glum in. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 620
- and all three once more on Sitting Pretty, a failed attempt in 1924 to resuscitate the old Princess style. Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 190
- Sitting Pretty is not without merit. Kern was beginning to abandon the all-dance-tune musical in favor of ballads. Musical A Grand Tour the Rise Glory and Fall of An Flinn Denny Martin New York L, p. 173
- If all three did not work as a team after Sitting Pretty, it was almost surely a question of circumstances. Musical A Grand Tour the Rise Glory and Fall of An Flinn Denny Martin New York L, p. 177
- Crooks and young women are in love with men to whom their guardians are opposed {Sitting Pretty). Musical A Grand Tour the Rise Glory and Fall of An Flinn Denny Martin New York L, p. 178
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 Sitting Pretty at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.