Productions1 on Broadway
| 1929 | Hammerstein’s Theatre Original. September 3, 1929 · Reginald Hammerstein | 234 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing not confirmed
| Rights | — We have not been able to confirm the publisher. |
Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.
In the literature13 passages
After Show Boat Kern and Hammerstein would collaborate on three of the composer’s remaining five Broadway shows, two with respectable runs, Sweet Adeline (1929) and Music in the Air (1932), and a disappointing Very Warm for May (1 939). Despite book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p67
“Bill.” Two years later, Kern created Sweet Adeline as a vehicle for her. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p267
SWEET ADELINE ran headlong into the stock market crash and could not survive. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p86
Critics and audiences alike stopped in amazement, stunned by that stunning song— which to this day, after seventy years, is still unpublished. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p15
Kern and Hammerstein would collaborate on three of the composer’s remaining five Broadway shows, two with respectable runs, Sweet Adeline (1929) and Music in the Air (1932), and a disappointing Very Warm for May (1939). book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-to-sondheim-and-lloyd-web#p68
SWEET ADELINE (WARNER. 1934) The plot and songs were fairly faithful to the Kern-Hammerstein musical, and you can hear the beauties that Jerome Kern wrote for Helen Morgan. book:musical-a-grand-tour-the-rise-glory-and-fall-of-an-flinn-denny-martin-new-york-l#p538
Passages naming this show, found by keyword across 178 books. Where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.