Theatre Register

What’s Up?, 1943

Shows · National Theatre, 1943

Original BroadwayNederlander Theatre 63 performances

The run closed January 4, 1944

Opened
November 11, 1943
Closed
January 4, 1944
Performances
63
Previews
Theatre
Nederlander Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 303rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it22 named

Jack Baker
Robert Bay
Marjorie Beecher
Kenneth Buffett
Lynn Gardner
Phyllis Hill
Frank Kreig
Sara Macon
Pat Marshall
Rodney Mclennan
Claire Meade
Honey Murray
Mitzi Perry
Mary Roche
Don Weissmuller
Helen Wenzel

6 of these 22 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 16 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 Balanchine, Robert H. Gordon
Choreographer
George Balanchine
Orchestrations
Van Cleave

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

What's Up? is a musical notable as the first Broadway stage collaboration by Lerner and Loewe, with book by Arthur Pierson and Alan Jay Lerner, lyrics by Lerner, and music by Frederick Loewe.

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 What’s Up? at all.
  • No show page for What’s Up?. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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