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Sally

Shows · Sally

Sally Green first appears as a dishwashing drudge at the Alley Inn in Greenwich Village dreaming of fame and singing “Look for the Silver Lining.” Invited by one of the waiters, really the exiled Duke of Czechogovinia (Leon Errol), Sally goes to an elegant ball in the guise of Mme. Nookerova, a celebrated ballerina.

Opened
1920
Performances
570
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Jerome KernLyrics: Clifford Grey, etc.Book: Guy Bolton

Productions3 on Broadway

1920 New Amsterdam Theatre Original. December 21, 1920 · Edward Royce 570 performances
1923 New Amsterdam Theatre Return-Engagement. September 17, 1923 · Edward Royce 24 performances
1948 Martin Beck Theatre Revival. May 6, 1948 · Billy Gilbert 36 performances

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

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
UK Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available

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In the literature42 passages

Fields appeared in two film versions of the musical: in 1925 (renamed Sally of the Sawdust), a silent directed by D. W. Griffith, and in 1936. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p49

Sunny was the alliterative successor to Sally, a musical that also had Marilyn Miller singing and dancing to Jerome Kern melodies. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p74

The musical has a somewhat complex cast album history. RCA Victor had the cast recording r book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p86

Following The King and I she appeared on Broadway just once more, in the original production of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies (1971) when she was Dorothy Collins’s standby and played the role of Sally during Collins’s vacation. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p533

On September 22, 1925, Marilyn Miller returned to this theatre in another Jerome Kern/Otto Harbach/Oscar Hammerstein II triumph. Produced by Charles Dillingham, the musical was titled Sunny—obviously trading on the success of Sally. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p29

Kern’s last show of 1920 was one of his greatest successes. Sally (12/21/20; 570 performances) had a book by Guy Bolton and lyrics by Clifford Grey, Anne Caldwell, P. G. Wodehouse, and B. G. De Sylva. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p300

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