The run closed June 8, 1929
- Opened
- March 11, 1929
- Closed
- June 8, 1929
- Performances
- 104
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 537th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it15 named
Victor Arden
Frank Gagen
Dick Keene
Cy Landry
Phil Ohman
Lewis Parker
Gil Squires
Maidel Turner
Thelma White
6 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 9 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
- Alexander Leftwich
- Choreographer
- Bobby Connolly
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 show introduced the Rodgers and Hart standard 'With a Song in My Heart,' which became one of their most enduring compositions. It was adapted into a 1930 film.
- “Spring Is Here”—different than song (unpublished) from SPRING IS HERE [March 11, 1929] Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 206
- I Married an Angel—initial use of song written for unproduced 1933 film version “Spring Is Here [2nd|—different than song (unpublished) from SPRING IS HERE [March 11, 1929] Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 128
- Note that “Spring Is Here” isn’t the song of the same title that Rodgers and Hart wrote as the title number for their 1929 Broadway musical Spring Is Here (the earlier song is also known as “Spring Is Here in Person,” and the more famous one from I Married an Angel asks the question, “Why doesn’t my heart go dancing?”)… The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 514
- peretta and musical comedy star Dennis King, who appeared in Rudolf Friml’s Rose-Marie (1924; and introduced “Indian Love Call” and the title song); Friml’s The Vagabond King (1925; “Only a Rose” and “March of the Vagabonds”); and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s I Married an Angel (1938; “Spring Is Here,” “Did You Ev… The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 463
- ‘Why Can’t I?’ from Spring Is Here (1929) and ‘This Can’t Be Love’ from The Boys from Syracuse (1938). Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 160
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 Spring Is Here at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.