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A lavish Hippodrome spectacle revue featuring a series of elaborate production numbers, comedy sketches, and variety acts. The massive show lived up to its title by offering audiences everything from acrobatic acts and trained animals to patriotic tableaux and spectacular scenic effects, all on the enormous Hippodrome stage that could accommodate hundreds of performers and even a water tank.

Opened
1918
Performances
461
Type
Revue
Era
Early
Music: John Philip Sousa, Irving BerlinLyrics: John GoldenBook: R.H. Burnside

Productions1 on Broadway

1918 Hippodrome Original. August 22, 1918 · R.H. Burnside 461 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Recordings 5 albums held

Licensing not confirmed

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In the literature5 passages

Lane and collaborator Harold Adamson went to Hollywood, quickly coming up with the hit Everything I Have Is Yours for the 1933 Dancing Lady. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p198

Everything (1918-19) —461 performances. book:revue-a-nostalgic-reprise-of-the-great-broadway-period-baral-robert-author-1st-e#p31

When the star of a Broadway musical quits just three weeks before the opening, three women compete for the role, each encouraged by a different male member of the production staff. In the end, two of the women have conflicts that force them to withdraw, leaving Reynolds’s character the winner. Needless to say, no one w… book:before-the-parade-passes-by-gower-champion-and-the-glorious-american-musical-joh#p70

The star looked similarly ancient but gave a highly energetic performance, going through an assortment of her hits (“I Got Rhythm,” “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun,” “Anything Goes,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses”). book:offstage-observations-inside-tales-of-the-steven-suskin-theodore-s-chapin-rowman#p161

The decade’s biggest box office draw, though, was Neil Simon, racking up hit after hit with Come Blow Your Horn, Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, and Plaza Suite. book:singular-sensation-the-triumph-of-broadway-the-triumph-of-michael-riedel-first-a#p95

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