The run closed May 2, 1931
- Opened
- December 8, 1930
- Closed
- May 2, 1931
- Performances
- 168
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadway Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 147th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The New Yorkers 2 more that season
| 1901 | Herald Square Theatre Original | 64 perf. |
| 1927 | Edyth Totten Theatre Revival | 52 perf. |
Who was in it97 named
Iris Adrian
Charles Angelo
Marjorie Arnold
Al Atkins
Scott F Bates
Betty Bowen
Chester Bree
Meta Brewster
Donald Bryan
Fred C Buck Jr
Lillian Burke
Helene Cambridge
Fred C Campbell
Marian Carew
Josephine Carroll
Martha Carroll
Mary Carroll
Alvina Carson
Lew Clayton
Elton C Cockerill
Charles Conkling
Melva Cornell
George A Culley
Vincent Curran
Inez de Plessis
Harry Donnelly
Bill Drewes
Herman Drewes
Frank Ericson
Mildred Espey
Harriet Fink
Francis Foster
Stella Friend
James J Gilliland
Ralph Glover
Eileen Gorlet
Clare Hanlon
Stanley Harrison
Larry Hart
Charles E Henderson
Arthur Horn
Frank W Hower
Paul Huber
Eddie Jackson
Adele Kay
Nelson A Keller
Betty Knight
Hilda Knight
Don Knoblock
Larry Larkin
Evelyn Laurie
Ethel Lawrence
James Libbey
Nat London
Mickey Mackillop
Pansy Manness
Janet Marion
James R Mcclintock
Donald Mcginnis
Lou Ann Meredith
Marcelle Miller
Norman Moran
Will Morgan
Marion Nevans
Barrie Oliver
Ida Pearson
Blanche Poston
Muriel Reed
Joseph Rogers
Jack Roth
Evelyn Saether
Blanche Satchell
D Wade Schlegel
June Shafer
Irving Sherman
Barbara Smith
Paul Sterrett
Norma Taylor
Will I Townsend
Jack Tucker
Eileen Wenzel
Buddy York
Tammany Young
Owen Coll
Elisabeth Welch
12 of these 97 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 85 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
- Monty Woolley
- Choreographer
- George Hale
- Producer
- E. Ray Goetz
- Orchestrations
- Hans Spialek
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 first theatrical production was Cole Porter’s and Herbert Fields’s The New Yorkers (December 8, 1930), starring Jimmy Durante. The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre 1943 1965 Naden Corinne J Rowman Litt, p. 201
- The New Yorkers filled the bill. The show, which starred Jimmy Durante, Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, and Ann Pennington, is best remembered for the song “Love for Sale,” which caused enormous controversy. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 108
- Herbert continued his collaboration with Porter with The New Yorkers (12/8/30; 158 performances). Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 189
- 'Love for Sale' in The New Yorkers (1930), and “Night and Day” in Gay Divorce (1932). Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 70
- “Take Me Back to Manhattan” (Reno/Four Angels) (introduced in The New Yorkers by Frances Williams [December 8, 1930]) Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 585
- 'You Do Something to Me' in Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929), and “Love for Sale” in The New Yorkers (1930), and “Night and Day” in Gay Divorce (1932). Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford Uni, 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 New Yorkers at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.
