The run closed November 23, 1929
- Opened
- December 4, 1928
- Closed
- November 23, 1929
- Performances
- 379
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- New Amsterdam Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 59th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Whoopee 1 more that season
| 1979 | Anta Playhouse Revival · Frank Corsaro | 204 perf. |
Who was in it96 named
Jean Ackerman
Josephine Adair
Sylvia Adam
Colette Ayers
Agnes Ayres
Mabel Baade
Peggy Bancroft
Elsie Behrens
Olive Brady
Ann Brown
Dorothy Brown
Sam Bunin
Katherine Burke
Spencer Charters
Chief Caupolican
Frank Colleti
Marie Conway
Mary Coyle
Myrna Darby
Ruth Downey
Betty Dumbris
Madeline Dunbar
Bill Erickson
Frank Ericson
Harold Ettos
Muriel Finley
Dorothy Flood
Hazel Forbes
Bob Forte
Frank Frey
Jack Gifford
Gladys Glad
Betty Gray
Muriel Gray
Edouard Grobe
Francis Guinan
Vivian Hall
James P Houston
Meredith Howard
Don Hudson
Tom Hughes
Yvonne Hughes
Elenor Hunt
George Huntington
Jack James
Mary Jane
Louise Joyce
Lillian Knight
David Labris
Wynne Lark
Helen Lehigh
Tom Leventhal
Jack Lewis
Olga Loft
Elaine Mann
Chas Mayon
Freda Mierse
Frieda Mierse
Gwendolyn Milne
Joe Minitello
Louis Morrell
Catherine Moylan
Edward Nadeau
Pat O Day
Agnes O Laughlin
Lillian Ostrum
Connie Owens
Dorothy Paterson
Dorothy Patterson
Charles Pettinger
Will H Philbrick
Valerie Raemier
Pauline Ray
Bob Rice
Rita Riecker
Marion Roberts
Waldo Roberts
Jerry Rogers
Irving Ross
Jack Rutherford
Jack Shaw
Adele Smith
Helen Walsh
Matt Webster
Bobbe Weeks
Bobbie Wellsley
Gil White
9 of these 96 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 87 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
- William Anthony McGuire
- Choreographer
- Seymour Felix, Tamara Geva
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
So when Stroman made her Broadway debut as a dancer in Whoopee! on Valentine’s Day, 1979, she viewed it as a means to an end. B007l4owcu Ebok Peter Filichia, p. 268
- One of the 1920SS most cherished musicals came to this theatre on December 4, 1928: Whoopee, which proved to be Eddie Cantor's greatest hit. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 30
- Charles Repole in a revival of Eddie Cantor's 1920s hit Whoopee (1979), from the Goodspeed Opera House; and Maggie Smith in Tom Stoppard's Night and Day (1979). Derek Jacobi starred in a Russian drama, The Suicide, in 1980, for 60 performances. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 220
- His The Nervous Wreck (10/9/23; 271 performances) was an immediate hit with Otto Kruger, Edward Arnold, June Walker, and William Holden in the cast. The play was later adapted into the musical Whoopee. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 244
- Another was the Goodspeed Opera Company’s revival of Whoopee! (1979), which starred Charles Repole. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 569
- Ziegfeld also produced significant book musicals, including Rio Rita (1927, which opened his Ziegfeld Theater), the history-making Show Boat (1927), Rosalie (1928), The Three Musketeers (1928), Whoopee (1928), and Bitter Sweet (1929). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 423
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 Whoopee at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.