The run closed January 5, 1929
- Opened
- November 8, 1928
- Closed
- January 5, 1929
- Performances
- 68
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 807th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it81 named
Florence Allen
Nitza Andre
Sidney Ayres
Charles Barron
Marcia Bell
Edwin Bidwell
Frank G Bond
Claire Carroll
Jean Carroll
Betty Clark
Cleo Cullen
Norman Curtis
Eugene Day
Dotte Desykva
John Dunsmure
Kathleen Edwardes
Evelyn Farrell
Stephen Francis
Virginia Franck
Sherry Gale
E M Gall
Victor Garland
Regis Geary
Bob Gebhardt
Ferris Hartman
Thomas Hodges
Alma Hookey
Edward Humbert
Joyce Johnson
Richard Keith
Adrienne Lampel
William L Mack
Lionel Maclyn
Helen Mann
Vida Manuel
Frances Markey
Mabel Martin
Isobel Mason
Pauline Mason
Ethel Maye
John Mcavoy
Billy Mccarver
Anabel Mcmann
Maureen Mcneil
Lillian Michel
Jack Morton
Alfonso Mullarkey
Elsie Neal
Wilma Novak
Daniel O Brien
Peggy O Neill
Tony Otto
Ruth Penery
Edwin Preble
Peggy Quinn
Alli Raddigan
Marvyne Ray
Fritz Reinhard
Wilma Roeloff
W Kenneth Shepard
Helen Sills
Sam Simpson
Kay Smythe
Florence Spink
Jack Stevens
Jacques Stone
Gwendolyn Vernon
Betty Vine
Sims Walker
Beryl Wallace
Walter Wandell
Betty Wright
9 of these 81 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 72 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
- Bertram Harrison
- Choreographer
- Bobby Connolly
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
Treasure Girl is a 1928 American musical with a book by Fred Thompson and Vincent Lawrence, music by George Gershwin, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was one of the several Gershwin shows produced by Alex A. Aarons and Vinton Freedley. Seven songs from Treasure Girl were published by Harms Inc. in 1928: "I Don't Think I'll Fall in Love Today," "K-Ra-Zy For You," "Feeling I'm Falling," "Got a Rainbow" (also known as "I've Got a Rainbow"), "Oh, So Nice!," "What Are We Here For?", and "Where's the Boy? Here's the Girl!" The musical's best-known song, "(I've Got a) Crush on You," was first published in 1930 when it was reused in Strike Up the Band. It was not until Lee Wiley's 1939 recording that…
First performance of Treasure Girl at the Shubert Theatre, Philadelphia. The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin Gershwin Ira 1896 1983, p. 29
- The next occupant of the Alvin was among the first shows to explore psychiatry, Lady in the Dark (1/23/41; 467 performances). The musical starred Gertrude Lawrence, returning to the Alvin in a better vehicle than her previous offering, Treasure Girl. KURT WEILL and Ira Gershwin supplied the score to a libretto by Moss… Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 394
- 'Tye Got A Crush On You”—originally used (unpublished) in\nTREASURE GIRL [November 8, 1928] Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 155
- “I’ve Got a Crush on You—originally used (unpublished) in TREASURE GIRL [November 8, 1928] Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 99
- “I’ve Got a Crush on You,” which had originally been introduced in Treasure Girl (1928) by Clifton Webb and Mary Hay. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 24
- “Where’s the Boy? Where’s the Girl?” (heard as “Where’s the Boy? Here’s the Girl!” from the 1928 Broadway musical Treasure Girl) The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 46
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 character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Treasure Girl at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.