The run closed February 7, 1959
- Opened
- December 22, 1958
- Closed
- February 7, 1959
- Performances
- 56
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Shubert Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 295th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it40 named
Sylvia Syms
Romo Vincent
Asia
P J Kelly
Mari Arnell
Ann Barry
Socrates Birsky
Tim Brown
Eleanor Dian
Tina Faye
Tony Gardell
Martha Granese
H F Green
Salvador Juarez
Robert Karl
Robert Lenn
Earl Lippy
Rae Mclean
Michelle Newton
Yolanda Poropat
Thomas Raskin
Wallace Rooney
Tony Rosa
Bobby Shields
Marla Stevens
Ben Vargas
Vera Walton
Jackie Warner
Barbara Webb
Steve Wiland
10 of these 40 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 30 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
- Cy Feuer
- Choreographer
- Onna White
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
Bob Fosse, Ernie Kovacs, and Edie Adams were announced for roles, but none of them wound up in the production, whose biggest name was Paul Ford, of television's "Sergeant Bilko," in a nonsinging role.
- There are two very important facts to know about the musical’s tryout: one, “Nobody Throw Those Bull” was titled “Nobody Love Those Cow,” and two, while she was known as Asia on Broadway, during the tryout she was known as Asia Mercoolova. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 746
- The cast album was released by MGM and both the monaural and stereo versions were assigned the same release number (LP# E-3745-OC); however, only the mono version included the overture. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 746
- There were two instrumental versions of the score, David Rose Plays Music from “‘Whoop-Up” (MGM LP # E-3746) and Dick Hyman Swings Music from ‘Whoop-Up’ (MGM # E-3747). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 746
- The CD release by Polydor (# 837-196-2) includes the overture as well as a number of bonus tracks, such as Chevalier’s jaw-dropping “Nobody Throw Those Bull”; “Love Eyes” and “Never Before” (Connie Francis); “Flattery” (Rosemary Clooney and Jose Ferrer); “Sorry for Myself” (Rosemary Clooney); a demo of the deleted “I’m… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 746
- Whoop-Up provided Johnson yet another opportunity to prove her mettle as musical comedy maven/biker chick. (Note that since her elevation from soubrette to leading lady, Susan now primly sits on het cycle sidesaddle.) Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 219
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 Whoop-Up at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.