The run closed June 12, 1926
- Opened
- December 28, 1925
- Closed
- June 12, 1926
- Performances
- 194
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Liberty Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 230th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it50 named
Barney Adams
Marjorie Bailey
Winifred Beck
Marcia Bell
Seldon Bennett
Mildred Brower
Dorothy Cola
Arthur Craig
Lyn Dauer
Paul Dessey
Ann Ecklund
Al Fischer
Bob Gebhardt
Anita Gordon
Peggy Hart
Maxine Henry
Edwin Hodge
Harry Howell
George Hughes
Diana Hunt
Grace Jones
Jack Jordan
Harry Lake
Lovey Lee
Marie Marceline
Edith Martin
Ethel Maye
Tom Mclaughlin
Lillian Mitchell
Elsie Neal
Alice O Brien
Blanche O Donohue
Marie Otto
Peggy Quinn
George Rand
Amy Revere
Jacques Stone
Flora Watson
Harry Watson
Betty Waxton
Ted White
Paulette Winston
Betty Wright
7 of these 50 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 43 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
- John Harwood, John
- Choreographer
- Sammy Lee
- Producer
- Alex A. Aarons & Vinton Freedley
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
DeEcEMBER 3 World premiere of George Gershwin’s Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, New York City, by the New York Symphony Society conducted by Walter Damrosch; George Gershwin, piano soloist. DECEMBER 28 Tip-Toes opens at the Liberty Theatre, New York City; 194 performances. The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin Gershwin Ira 1896 1983, p. 28
- Gershwin was chosen for this Russian operetta, which opened just two days after TIP-TOES [December 28, 1925]. The result was successful but pedestrian. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 150
- According to Mordden, no fewer than fifteen (recte sixteen – he does not include The Girl Friend ) of the twenty-six Broadway musicals exported to London were musical comedies. Sally , The Blue Kitten , Lady , Be Good! , No, No, Nanette , Sunny , Tip-Toes , The Girl Fri Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 477
- Among their songs that went on to become pop standards: “That Certain Feeling,” “Do, Do, Do,” “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “Sweet and Lowdown,” “’S Wonderful,” “How Long Has This Been Going On?,” “Soon,” “Strike Up the Band,” “But Not for Me,” “Embraceable You,” “Bidin’ My Time,” and “I Got Rhythm.” The Melody Lingers On the Great Songwriters and Their Movie Hemming Roy New York, p. 72
- The Gershwin’s Tip-Toes and The Coconuts (starring the Marx Brothers) were all set in Florida. A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 131
- A third, the story of a little variety performer known as Tip-Toes and her two acts of ups and downs on the way to wealth, social position, and an American fairy prince, was a vehicle for the delicious dancing soubrette Queenie Smith, but at the other end of the scale there was Oh, Kay! The Musical A Concise History Second Edition Ga Nzl Kurt Findlay Jamie 2 2022010, p. 203
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 Tip-Toes at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.