The run closed December 14, 1929
- Opened
- September 19, 1928
- Closed
- December 14, 1929
- Performances
- 509
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 24th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The New Moon 2 more that season
| 1942 | Carnegie Hall Revival · John Pierce | 24 perf. |
| 1944 | City Center Revival · José Ruben | 44 perf. |
Who was in it99 named
Olga Albani
Lazlo Aliga
Beulah Baker
Daniel Barnes
Herman Belmonte
Ida Berry
Dulcie Bond
Rosalie Brumm
Kay Burnell
Ned Byers
Marie Callahan
Vance Campbell
John Cardini
Helen Casey
Cecilia Caskey
Dorothy Christie
Thomas Coppe
Dorice Covert
Thomas Dale
Barbara Dare
James Davis
David Degrave
Frank Dobert
Dody Donnelly
Lester Dorr
Frank Dowling
Lyle Evans
Marion Frances
Novella Fromm
R E Garcia
Gloria Glennon
Sigmund Glukoff
Dorothy Grady
Ruth Grady
Olga Grannis
Frank Grinnel
John Gutcher
Patrick Henry
Hernadez Brother Trio
Dorothy Higgins
Ruth Jennings
Tina Marie Jensen
Leon Kairoff
Andrew Keller
T W Kendall
Constance King
George Kirk
Sylvia Lamarde
Elmira Lane
Gloria Lee
Sol Leimas
Carl Linke
Rita Marks
Phyllis Marren
Charles V Maynard
Ernest Mcchesney
Wallace Mcleod
Frances Mildern
Earle Mitchell
Al Monty
Christine Morey
Charles Muhs
Jack Murray
Edward Nell Jr
Cornelius Pilcher
Rae Powell
William Prevost
Basil Prock
Ramon
Sverre Rasmussen
Pacie Ripple
Sylvia Roberts
Joe Rogers
Rosita
W M Rytter
Leon Sabater
Marnie Sawyer
Howard Schreiber
Edith Sheldon
Bart Shilling
Edward Smythe
Marjorie Sneller
Carl Streib
Carola Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Rosalie Trego
Frank Vaughn
Arthur Verbowvans
Dorothy Verlaine
Irving Weinstein
Dean Wheeler
Paul Kleeman
7 of these 99 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 92 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, Uncredited
- Choreographer
- Bobby Connolly
- Producer
- Laurence Schwab & Frank Mandel
- Orchestrations
- Emil Gerstenberg
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 reason the two composers shared the assignment is that Romberg could not undertake it alone because he was then also creating the music for The New Moon. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 69
- The New Moon had to endure a tryout so disastrous that it was shut down completely while extensive alterations were made to the story, the score, and the cast. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 71
- Celebrated for his lush scores for operettas in exotic locales (The Desert Song, The New Moon), Sigmund Romberg joined with lyricist Dorothy Fields to recapture the vintage Currier and Ives charms found up in New York’s Central Park in the 1870s. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 126
- On September 19, 1928, another blockbuster came to this house: Sigmund Romberg's glorious operetta The New Moon, with a libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel, and Laurence Schwab. Set in New Orleans at the time of the French Revolution, the operetta was studded with such gems as "Wanting You," "Lover, Come Bac… At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 175
- The New Moon (9/19/28; 509 performances), with book and lyrics by Hammerstein and music by Sigmund Romberg, opened at the Imperial Theatre. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 233
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 New Moon at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.