The run closed April 26, 1930
- Opened
- December 30, 1929
- Closed
- April 26, 1930
- Performances
- 136
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- American Airlines Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 386th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Wake Up and Dream 1 more that season
| 1928 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it21 named
Ann Barberova
Jean Barry
Toni Birkmayer
Marjorie Brooks
Wyn Clare
Dave Fitzgibbon
A B Imeson
Lance Lister
Tillie Losch
Tina Meller
Roy Mitchell
Claude Newman
Douglas Phillips
Frances Shelley
William Stephens
Mary Tomlinson
Gomez Trio
Greta Wood
3 of these 21 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 18 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
- Hassard Short
- Choreographer
- Jack Buchanan, Tilly Losch
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
Wake Up and Dream is a musical revue with a book by John Hastings Turner and music and lyrics by Cole Porter and others. The most famous song from the revue is the Porter standard "What Is This Thing Called Love?" The revue opened in London while Porter's Paris was still running on Broadway. Producer Charles B. Cochran asked Porter to write the score, even though in their previous dealings Porter had treated him with some discourtesy. Opening on December 30, 1929, the production was the last to open on Broadway in the 1920s. The title later would be used for unrelated films in 1934, 1942 and 1946.
- The New York production of WAKE UP AND DREAM did not do quite as well, hampered by the stock market crash and competition from Porter’s just-opened hit FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN [November 27, 1929]. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 240
- Clifton did it so well that in 1929 I put it in the score of WAKE UP AND DREAM in London, where it was sung by Sonny Hale. Later, when Jack Buchanan starred in WAKE UP AND DREAM on Broadway he sang this song. The Letters of Cole Porter Cole Porter Editor Cliff Eisen Editor Dominic Mchugh , p. 479
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 Wake Up and Dream at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.