The run closed October 14, 1916
- Opened
- December 23, 1915
- Closed
- October 14, 1916
- Performances
- 341
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Princess Theatre
Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 34th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Very Good Eddie 3 more that season
| 1918 | Palace Theatre Transfer | |
| 1975 | Booth Theatre Revival · Bill Gile | 304 perf. |
| 1976 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it31 named
Helen Bond
Arline Chase
Louise Cook
Sedgewick Draper
Lew Fullerton
Stuart Gillmore
Herbert Hoey
Bessie Kelly
Kuy Kendall
Adah Lewis
Dorothy Jane Londoner
James Lounsbery
Tess Mayer
Harry Mckenna
Julia Mills
Mary Louise Morrison
Dorothy Nita
Helen O Day
Anna Orr
Katherine Rahn
Georgia Spelvin
Dorothy Sylvia
Carl Wadsworth
Genevieve Willment
Morton Wood
Benjamin F Wright
5 of these 31 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 26 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
- Frank Sadler
- Choreographer
- David Bennett
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
Very Good Eddie is a musical with a book by Guy Bolton and Philip Bartholomae, music by Jerome Kern, and lyrics by Schuyler Greene, with additional lyrics by Elsie Janis, Herbert Reynolds, Harry B. Smith, John E. Hazzard, Ring Lardner and Jerome Kern, and additional music by Henry Kailimai. The story was based on the farce Over Night by Bartholomae. The farcical plot concerns three couples and a sex-crazed voice teacher who board a Hudson River Day Line boat in Poughkeepsie, New York. Chaos ensues when two of the couples cross paths and accidentally trade partners. The vaudeville-style adventure continues at a hotel, where guests pop in and out of rooms while an inebriated desk clerk tries t…
VERY GOOD EDDIE [1915] December 23, 1915 Princess Theatre * 341 performances Lyrics mostly by Schuyler Greene and Herbert Reynolds [M. E. Rourke]; Book by Philip Bartholomae and Guy Bolton (based on Over Night [play] by Philip Bartholomae); Directed by Frank McCormick; Produced by the Marbury-Comstock Co.; With Ernest Truex, Alice Dovey, and John E. Hazzard Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 44
- The final Kern musical of the year was Very Good Eddie (12/23/15; 341 performances). Schuyler Greene was the lyricist along with Herbert Reynolds. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 298
- Kern wrote the score for the second Princess Theater show, Very Good Eddie (12/23/15; 341 performances). Philip Bartholomae and Guy Bolton contributed the book, and Herbert Reynolds and Schuyler Greene wrote the lyrics to Kern’s tunes. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 447
- The show followed Bolton and Kern's Nobody Home and Very Good Eddie with Wodehouse joining the team for the first time. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 236
- Victor Herbert’s Naughty Marietta (1910), Jerome Kern’s so-called Princess Theatre Shows (1915–1918) with books and lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton (especially Very Good Eddie and Leave It to Jane), Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthy’s Irene (1919), Sigmund Romberg’s The Student Prince in Heidelberg (1924), Vin… Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 29
- at least two of which, Very Good Eddie and Leave It to Jane, have been successfully revived in recent decades. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 50
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 Very Good Eddie at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.