The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- April 30, 1929
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 321
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Music Box Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 87th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Who was in it18 named
Paul Bissinger
Adam Carroll
Joan Carter Waddell
Dorothy Humphreys
Kay Lazell
Helen Lynd
John Mccauley
Harold Moffat
Ernest Sharpe
9 of these 18 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 9 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
- Dwight Deere Wiman, Alexander Leftwich
- Choreographer
- Danny Dare
- Producer
- William A. Brady Jr. & Dwight Deere Wiman
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
- first of 11 Broadway musicals to feature songs by the team of Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 74
- Once the sponsors of The Second Little Show decided that the stars of the first Little Show — Clifton Webb, Fred Allen, and Libby Holman — would not be in their new revue, fledgling producer Max Gordon persuaded the trio to appear in his own revue. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 80
- Flying Colors flew in a direct line from The Little Show, Three’s a Crowd, and The Band Wagon. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 85
- This was to be her Broadway come-back after having scored in such lauded revues as The Little Show and Three's A Crowd. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 33
- Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz made history with The Little Show (4/30/29; 321 performances). The songwriting team was warming up for their biggest triumph, The Band Wagon. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 384
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 Little Show at all.
- When it closed.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.