The run closed May 18, 1940
- Opened
- October 18, 1939
- Closed
- May 18, 1940
- Performances
- 249
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 76th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it61 named
Margorie Baglin
Libby Bennett
John Beton
Betty Boyce
Florine Callahan
Renee Cettel
Alice Craig
Betty de Elmo
Louise de Forrest
Romolo di Spirito
Willis Duncan
Marge Ellis
Vera Fern
Clyde Fillmore
Vernon Hammer
Charlene Harkins
Bob Howard
Randolph Hughes
Harry Jackson
Clarence Jaeger
Jeanette Lavis
Mildred Law
Hal le Roy
Lita Lede
La Verne Lupton
Herb Lurie
James Maccoll
William Mende
Russ Milton
Amarilla Morris
Mildred Patterson
Harry Pedersen
Dorothy Poplar
Edison Rice
Jack Riley
Hans Robert
Ivy Scott
Bob Shaw
Byron Shores
Leonor Sola
Mildred Solly
Olga Suarez
Key Taylor
Anna Mae Tesslo
Davenie Watson
James Wilkinson
Claire Wolf
Harold Young
William Blees
12 of these 61 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 49 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
- George Abbott
- Choreographer
- Robert Alton
- Producer
- George Abbott
- 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
- Bracken, Eddie Too Many Girls, 108 Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 353
- Rodgers and Hart had another hit at the Imperial with their college musical Too Many Girls (10/18/39; 249 performances). The show had a lightweight book by George Marion Jr. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 277
- Too Many Girls, directed by its Broadway director George Abbott and starring four members of the original stage cast, managed to salvage half of the score, seven songs—if you have been counting, this is close to a record for film adaptations. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 240
- Songs interpolated from other Rodgers and Hart shows: “There’s a Small Hotel” (On Your Toes, 1936), “My Funny Valentine” and “The Lady Is a Tramp” (Babes In Arms, 1937), and “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was” (Too Many Girls,” 939). Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 565
- “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was” (Too Many Girls,” 1939). Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 566
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 Too Many Girls at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.