The run closed May 5, 1917
- Opened
- August 31, 1916
- Closed
- May 5, 1917
- Performances
- 425
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Hippodrome Theatre
Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 17th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it136 named
Charles Ahearn
Max Aronson
Mr Bain
Jack Bart
Enzo Bozano
Paul Briant
Walter Briant
Mlle Brunova
Mlle Butzova
Miss Caine
James Carty
Addie Clark
Mlle Collinet
J P Coombs
Marie Corty
Natalie Dagwell
Ellen Dallerup
Emil Davis
George Davis
Johnny Davis
Dippy Diers
Mlle Doganova
M Domislavski
The El Rey Sisters
Elm City Four
Stanley Ferguson
The Four Singers
Hanny Frick
Rosa Gebauer
Miss Georges
Dixie Gerard
Mlle Grassova
Fred Gregory
Mlle Griffova
Robert Gross
Bobbie Hale
George Hermann
M Hubart
David Irwin
Miss Johnson
Mat Keefe
George Kerner
Emma Kiyo
Miss Kollhofer
Peter Ladella
Tony Ladella
W G Ladella
Mlle Leggierova
Mlle Lindovskaja
Emanuel List
Adelaide Lorrett
William Lorrimer
James Mack
Blanche Marci
Georges Marck
William Maxwell
Miss Meerest
Miss Melville
Albert Metzetti
Charles Metzetti
Leon Metzetti
Otto Metzetti
Sylvester Metzetti
Happy Milke
Beverly Miller
John Miller
Phyllis Miller
Messr Montes
Miss Moore
Miss Moran
Mlle Moskvina
Miss Mullar
Mlle Myersa
Walter Nelson
Howard Nichols
Millard Nichols
Norman Nichols
Miss Norman
B K Okita
Mr Oliveroff
Margaret Oneil
Marion O Neil
Haru Onuki
Miss Overlack
Mr Parker
Joseph Parsons
Anna Pavlova
Stefa S Plaskovietyka
Cathleen Pope
Mr Poppelow
Frances Pritchard
J R Proctor
Gus Proppe
Charles Ravel
Bob Reano
William C Reid
Robert Rosaire
Dave Rosen
Hilda Ruckerts
Eddie Russell
Frank Scalish
Barbara Schaefer
Katie Schmidt
Mlle Shelton
Al Silverman
The Six Brown Brothers
Mlle Smallers
W G Stewart
Mlle Stuart
Miss Sully
Fred Sweeney
Mlle Tastova
Henry Taylor
Toto
John Tweedley
M Vajinski
Mlle Verins
Mr Veseloff
Alexandere Volinine
Austin Walsh
Miss Walters
Harry Wardell
Martha Weidemann
C Weikusat
M Weikusat
Miss Welden
Gus Wicke
George Wilson
Billy Woolfe
Miss Worm
Miss Wruck
Letty Yorke
Yoshie and Nobu
Messr Zalewski
2 of these 136 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 134 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
- Ivan Clustine
- Choreographer
- Ivan Clustine
- 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.
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 The Big Show at all.
- No show page for The Big Show. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.