The run closed May 3, 1924
- Opened
- January 21, 1924
- Closed
- May 3, 1924
- Performances
- 120
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Astor Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 453rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it37 named
Franklyn Ardell
Irving Beebe
Rae Bowdin
Bobbie Breslaw
Mildred Brown
Ethel Bryant
Albert Burke
Alan Cook
Frank Cullen
Yvette Dubois
Norma Forrest
May Rena Grady
Evelyn Grieg
William Holbrook
Sophie Howard
Dorothy Hughes
Charles Kennedy
Florence Kingsley
Maurice Lapue
Lulu Mcgrath
Margaret Morris
William Neeley
Betty Nevins
Olivette
Edward Ross
Penelope Rowland
Rose Sarro
Jack Stone
Ruth Warren
William Wayne
Lee Wentling
Paulette Winston
Betty Wright
4 of these 37 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 33 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
- Edgar MacGregor
- Choreographer
- Sammy Lee
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
Originally titled A Perfect Lady during tryouts, this was one of George Gershwin's early full Broadway scores. The show opened the same year as his far more successful Lady, Be Good!
- DE SYLVA, who went on to become producer at 20th Century Fox and Paramount, and founder of Capitol Records, wrote songs and scores for: Sinbad (18); La, La Lucille (19); Sally (20); Bombo (21); The Broadway Whirl (21); The French Doll (22); Orange Blossoms (22); Sweet Little Devil (24); Big Boy (25); Captain Jinks (25)… The Best Musicals From Show Boat To A Chorus Line By Arthur Jackson Foreword By , p. 142
- DeSylva later revised the lyric again for Sweet Little Devil (1924), but the song was deleted prior to the pre-Broadway tryout. The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin Gershwin Ira 1896 1983, p. 39
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 Little Devil at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.