The run closed March 22, 1930
- Opened
- September 3, 1929
- Closed
- March 22, 1930
- Performances
- 234
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Hammerstein's Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 173rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it98 named
Caryl Bergman
Thomas Chadwick
Robert Fischer
Gus
Max Hoffmann Jr
Robert Emmett Keane
Len Mence
John Seymour
Will
Irving Arnold
Helen Ault
Sally Bates
Peter Bender
Louise Bernhardt
Harriet Britton
Dorothy Brown
Lillian Burke
John Campbell
Mary Carney
Kaye Carroll
Don Carter
Louise Chowning
Gertrude Clave
Nore Cliff
Aida Conkey
Don Cortez
Myrtle Cox
Wally Crisham
Betty Croke
Nonie Dale
Joseph Davidenko
Fanille Davies
George Djimos
Frank Dobert
Lynn Eldridge
Harry Esmond
La Vergne Evans
Jackson Fairchild
Polly Fisher
Frances Flanigan
Christine Gallagher
Helene Gardner
Mildred Gethins
Pauline Gorin
Jack Gray
Evelyn Hannons
Muriel Harrison
Dorothy Hiller
Helen Kelly
Grace la Rue
Evelyn Laurie
Gloria le Bow
Louis Leo
Borrah Levinson
Andy Lieb
Madge Macanally
George Magis
Marion Martin
Helen Mcdonald
Peggy Messinger
Paul Moran
Billy Murray
Laura Mutch
Gladys Nelson
Ruby Nevins
Ruth Penery
George Raymond
Joe Reilly
Josephine Rice
Tom Rider
Robertina Robertson
Len Saxon
Madgio Schmylee
Martin Sheppard
William Sheppard
Bob Shutta
Alexis Sokoloff
Baum Sturz
Bertha Mae Swan
Morris Tepper
Mabel Thilbault
Tom Thompson
Jim Thornton
Elenore Tierney
Cyrilla Tuite
Emily van Hoven
Genevieve van Hoven
Robert Vernon
Efim Vitis
Lorena Walcott
Ben Wells
Marion Young
6 of these 98 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 92 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
- Reginald Hammerstein
- Choreographer
- Danny Dare
- Producer
- Arthur Hammerstein
- Orchestrations
- Robert Russell Benne
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
- After Show Boat Kern and Hammerstein would collaborate on three of the composer’s remaining five Broadway shows, two with respectable runs, Sweet Adeline (1929) and Music in the Air (1932), and a disappointing Very Warm for May (1 939). Despite Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 67
- “Bill.” Two years later, Kern created Sweet Adeline as a vehicle for her. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 267
- SWEET ADELINE ran headlong into the stock market crash and could not survive. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 86
- Critics and audiences alike stopped in amazement, stunned by that stunning song— which to this day, after seventy years, is still unpublished. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 15
- Kern and Hammerstein would collaborate on three of the composer’s remaining five Broadway shows, two with respectable runs, Sweet Adeline (1929) and Music in the Air (1932), and a disappointing Very Warm for May (1939). Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat To Sondheim and Lloyd Web, p. 68
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 Sweet Adeline at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.