The run closed March 25, 1916
- Opened
- 1915
- Closed
- March 25, 1916
- Performances
- 105
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- —
Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 277th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it87 named
James K Ahloy
Helen Barnes
Julia Beaubien
Grace Beaumont
Claire Bertrand
Neil Bertrand
Dan Bryant
Rose Burns
Henry N Clark
Mae Clark
Dorothy Clifford
Evelyn Conway
Kathleen Cullen
James Curran
Lola Curtis
Madeleine Dare
Dorothy Davenport
James Doyle
William Dunn
Helen Ellsworth
Sam Fineberg
Eva Francis
Warner Gault
Frank Gillespie
Herbert Goff
Ken Griffin
Fifi Hanswirth
Flo Hart
Charles Hartmann
David Heilbrunn
Carolyn Heinz
Cliff Hess
Leo Howe
Roy Hoyer
James Ii
Robert Kaawa
Al Kalani
James I Kamakani
Franz Kellar
R Kuaha
Flo Lawlor
Evelyn Leroy
Rose Leslie
Elsie Lewis
Hazel Lewis
Katherine Mack
William Mack
Kitty Mahoney
Dan C Makaena
Cecile Markle
Harry Mcmasters
Clyde Miller
E K Miller
Florence Morrison
Phyllis Munday
Julie Newell
William Noll
Olga Olonova
Eileen Percy
Harry Pilcer
Tot Qualters
Bobbie Reed
Lillian Rice
Henry Santley
Blossom Seeley
Iva Sherer
Renee Smythe
Eleanor St Clair
Jack Stanley
Anna Stone
Ethel Sykes
Charles L Tucker
Harry Vale
Effie Wheeler
Grace Williams
Walter Wills
Kathryn Wilson
Trixie Wilson
9 of these 87 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 78 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
- R. H. Burnside
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
Stop! Look! Listen! is a musical in three acts with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and book by Harry B. Smith. The piece had additional music by Henry Kailimai and Jack Alau and additional lyrics by G. H. Stover and Sylvester Kalama. Stop! Look! Listen! opened on Broadway at the Globe Theatre on Christmas Day, 1915, and ran for 105 performances. The revue was produced by Charles Dillingham and directed by R.H. Burnside. The music director was Robert Hood Bowers, and Robert McQuinn designed the sets and costumes.
'“Stop, Look, Listen,’ New Play with Gaby Deslys as Star, Makes a Hit,” New York Telegram, n.d., IB Scrapbook #2. Irving Berlin S American Musical Theater Broadway Legacies Jeffrey Magee Broadwa, p. 329
- Watch Your Step and Stop! Look! Listen! , after all, had been filled with revue numbers, and even The Cocoanuts (1925), a spoof of Florida land-grabbing with the Marx Brothers, had a story but not a story score. Anything Goes A History of American Musical Theatre Ethan Mordden, p. 161
- Her Broadway debut had been a few sea¬ons earlier at the Winter Garden, but Stop! Look! Listen! pushed her into the top brackets. Revue A Nostalgic Reprise of the Great Broadway Period Baral Robert Author 1st E, p. 30
- Stop! Look! Listen! appeared in 1915 with two hit songs, “I Love a Piano” and “The Girl on the Magazine.” Irving Berlin S American Musical Theater Broadway Legacies Jeffrey Magee, p. 13
- the titles of Berlin’s first shows captured the telegraphic cadence of commands in the recently constructed subway line. Passengers stepping off the trains had already been exhorted to “Watch Your Step” and “Stop! Look! Listen!” for their safety. Irving Berlin S American Musical Theater Broadway Legacies Jeffrey Magee, p. 66
- Dillingham adopted the same formula for Stop! Look! Listen!, casting a celebrity in a starring role, which is chiefly a magnified version of herself—a point brought home in the program that, like the one for Watch Your Step, identified the heroine by her real name, Gaby Deslys. Irving Berlin S American Musical Theater Broadway Legacies Jeffrey Magee, p. 69
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 Stop! Look! Listen! at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.