The run closed December 11, 1926
- Opened
- September 22, 1925
- Closed
- December 11, 1926
- Performances
- 517
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- New Amsterdam Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 21st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it80 named
Charles Angelo
Alfred Arnold
Russell Ash
Jean Audree
William Bennett
Alice Brady
Mary Brady
Elmer Brown
Irving Carter
Gordon Clark
Virginia Clark
Joan Clement
Vera Colburn
May Cornes
Miriam Crosby
Betty Darling
Elizabeth Darling
Beatrice de Shaw
Frank Doane
Nellie Douglas
Dorothy Durland
Walter Fairmont
Jeanne Fonda
Dean Freeman
Helene Gardner
Eddie Graham
Pauline Hall
Grace Holt
Wensley Johnston
Ray Justus
Julia Lane
Myrtle Lane
Helen Macdonald
Trude Marr
Lucy Monroe
Lee Moore
Roy Moore
Bill O Donnell
Donald Oltrash
Elsa Peterson
Nickie Pittell
Elva Pomfret
Richard Renaud
Phyllis Reynolds
Lelia Riley
Adelaide Robinson
Minard Roosa
Don Rowen
Rita Royce
William Sholar Jr
Iris Smith
Peggy Sowden
Harry Spencer
Hilda Wynn Stanley
Jet Stanley
Louise Starck
Marshall D Sullivan
Marion Swords
Ward Tallman
Ayres Tavitt
Norma Taylor
Billy Walsh
Doris Waterworth
Maxine Wells
Ted Wenning
James Wilson
Louis Yaeckel
13 of these 80 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 67 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
- Hassard Short
- Choreographer
- Julian Mitchell, Alexis Kosloff, John Tiller, David Bennett, Fred Astaire, John
- Producer
- Charles Dillingham
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
- Hammerstein first collaborated with composer JEROME KERN on the show Sunny (9/22/25; 517 performances). Harbach worked with Hammerstein on the book and lyrics, and Charles Dillingham produced the musical at the New AMSTERDAM THEATRE. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 233
- Kern’s next show, Sunny (9/22/25; 517 performances), another great success, reunited the composer with his star of Sally, Marilyn Miller. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 300
- Sunny, a vehicle for Marilyn Miller with a score by Kern, opens at the New Amsterdam Theater for a run of 517 performances. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 19
- She starred in several of his musical comedies, including Sally (1920), Sunny (1925), and Rosalie (1928). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 261
- 'In Araby With You”—new lyric for “Sunshine” from SUNNY “You Will—Won’t You?”—new lyric for “I’ve Looked For Trouble” from London production of SUNNY, a revised version of “Bought And Paid For” from THE LAUGHING HUSBAND [February 2, 1914] Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 82
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 Sunny at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.