The Cocoanuts, 1925

The run closed August 7, 1926

Opened

December 8, 1925

Closed

August 7, 1926

Performances

276

Previews

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Theatre

Lyric Theatre

Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 125th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Cocoanuts 1 more that season

Who was in it65 named

Chico Marx
Groucho Marx
Harpo Marx
Zeppo Marx
Jack Barker
The Breens
Lehman Byck
Grace Carroll
Kitty Clay
Beatrice Coniff
Ted Daniels
Billie Davis
Eugene Day
Antonio de Marco
Nina de Marco
Billy Dewolf
Xela Edwards
Roberta Haines
Georgie Hale
Rella Harrison
Madeline Janis
Peggy Jones
Mildred Kelly
Evelyn Kermin
Charles Knowlton
Andre Lapue
Maude Lydiate
Lionel Maclyn
Frances Mallory
Liane Mamet
Philip Mann
Juan Marlow
Maxine Marshall
Helen Martin
Mat Matus
Virginia Mccune
Adele Mchatton
Nesha Medwin
Eleanor Meeker
Bonnie Murray
Marjorie Murray
Hazel Patterson
Jessie Payne
Elsie Pedrick
Gladys Pender
Nancy Phillips
Florence Regan
Jerome Robertson
Maxine Robinson
Bernice Speer
Hazel Stille
Sybil Stuart
Jerry White
Henry Whittemore
Beryle Williams
Billie Williams

9 of these 65 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 56 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

Oscar Eagle

Choreographer

Sammy Lee

Producer

Sam H. Harris

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

The Cocoanuts, starring the Marx Brothers and with a script by George S. Kaufman (and an unacknowledged Morrie Ryskind) and score by Berlin, premieres at the Lyric Theater. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 19

• Sam Harris, who produced 32 musicals on Broadway, was also associated with Irving Berlin on The Cocoanuts, Face the Music, and As Thousands Cheer. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 61
• The Cocoanuts ran for 375 performances—spectacular for the 1920s. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 21
• The Marx Brothers starred in Berlin’s next show, The Cocoanuts (12/8/25). The show didn’t contain any standout songs but, rather went down in his- tory as a hysterical Marx Brothers film. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 89
• In 1925 the Oppenheimer Brothers assumed management of the theater. IRving Berlin supplied the score to the madcap musical comedy The Cocoanuts (12/8/25; 375 performances). Along with the Marx Brothers, the show featured the Brox Sisters and the Brothers’ constant foil, Margaret Dumont. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 346
• Published Songs The Monkey Doodle Doo [1st]—different than song from THE COCOANUTS [December 8, 1925]. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 70

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 The Cocoanuts at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.