The run closed July 11, 1925
- Opened
- April 13, 1925
- Closed
- July 11, 1925
- Performances
- 32
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Gaiety Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 1,184th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it48 named
Maud Andrew
Florence Auer
Jane Brew
Mildred Brown
Cecil Bruner
Willie Covan
Frank Cullen
Charlotte Esmone
Robert Gebhardt
Vivian Glenn
Emma Haig
Dolla Harkins
Sofia Howard
George Hughes
Nita Jacques
Mary Jane
Trudy Lake
Margaret Lee
Edna Locke
Polly Luce
Maxine Marshall
Morton Mcconnachie
Virginia Mccune
Ruth Mosley
Marion Mueller
Richard Oakley
Daniel Oltash
Ruth Raymonde
Eugene Redding
Penelope Rowland
Leonard Ruffin
Robert Ryles
Robert Samuels
Willie Scholer
Kenneth Smith
Blossom Vreeland
Betty Waxton
Betty Whitney
Dotty Wilson
Gay Worrell
Betty Wright
7 of these 48 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 41 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
- John Harwood, John
- 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
Tell Me More is a musical written by Fred Thompson and William K. Wells, with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by B. G. DeSylva and Ira Gershwin. It opened on Broadway at the Gaiety Theatre in April 1925 and in London in the same year at the Winter Garden Theatre.
Aprit 13 Tell Me More opens at the Gaiety Theatre, New York City; 100 performances. May 26 Tell Me More opens at the Winter Garden, London; 264 performances. The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin Gershwin Ira 1896 1983, p. 28
- Sweetheart, I’m So Glad That I Met You—see TELL ME MORE! [April 13, 1925] Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 91
- “Kickin’ the Clouds Away” (Tell Me More, 1925; sung by the entire company) were cut. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 376
- 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
- Tell Me More was also taken down, but after Leonore’s death the Gershwin heirs apparently lost interest; New World brought the last two out in a double-disc set in 2001. Anything Goes A History of American Musical Theatre Ethan Mordden, p. 395
- For the lyric to “Once,” see Tell Me More. The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin Gershwin Ira 1896 1983, p. 136
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 Tell Me More at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.