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Getting Together
Play
Play with music
Original
Broadway
Opening Date
Mar 18, 1918
Closing Date
Aug 31, 1918
Performances
112
Play
Play with music
Original
Broadway
Open Date: Mar 18, 1918
Close Date: Aug 31, 1918
Closed Flag: n
Is Final Week:
ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION
The credits for this production have not yet been completed or verified.
Theatres
Lyric Theatre
(Mar 18, 1918 - Mar 23, 1918)
Shubert Theatre
(Jun 03, 1918 - Aug 31, 1918)
Description
A Play with Music in Three Acts and 6 Scenes
Setting
New York City and France
People
Production Staff
Opening Night Cast
Replacements
Produced by
British-Canadian Recruiting Mission
and
United States Military and Naval Forces
Written by
Ian Hay
,
J. Hartley Manners
and
Percival Knight
; Music by
Gitz Rice
; Lyrics by
Gitz Rice
; Musical Director:
Manuel Klein
; Additional lyrics by
Harold A. Robe
,
Worton David
,
Percival Knight
and
Harrison Brockbank
; Additional music by
C. W. Murphy
and
Harrison Brockbank
; Incidental music by
Roy Webb
Directed by
Holbrook Blinn
and
Frederick Stanhope
Scenic Design by
Clifford Pember
; Costume Design by
Eaves
Leonard Barry
First Recruit
Blanche Bates
Mrs. Palmer
Ruth Benson
A Refugee
Harry Blakemore
A Retired Bellhop
Holbrook Blinn
Orrin Palmer
Harrison Brockbank
Warrant Officer
Santa Claus
Timothy Conway
Fourth Spectator
L. Shannon Cormack
British Sergeant
War Tank Officer
Suzanne Feday
A Waitress
James Flint
Third Recruit
Charles Francis
British Soldier
Death
British Surgeon
E. J. Kennedy
First Spectator
Second American Soldier
Dorothy Knight
Miss Fletcher
Percival Knight
Sergeant Atkins
W.J. O'Neill
Third Spectator
Arthur Ray
First American Soldier
Gitz Rice
Lieutenant Gitz Rice
Gustave Rolland
A Poilu
William Roselle
Edward Wadsworth
William Rowland
Second Recruit
Harriet Sterling
A Woman
Edwin Taylor
A Servant
Fifth Spectator
First British Soldier
John Thorne
Second Spectator
Sergeant Jennings, U.S. Army
Lyric Theatre
(Mar 18, 1918 - Mar 23, 1918)
Shubert Theatre
(Jun 03, 1918 - Aug 31, 1918)
Musical Director:
Howard A. Cook
Songs
music by
Gitz Rice
; lyrics by
Gitz Rice
(Unless otherwise noted)
Act 1
Sung By
Who Carries the Gun?
(lyrics by
Rudyard Kipling
)
Warrant Officer
You've Got to Go In or Go Under
(lyrics by
Percival Knight
)
Lieutenant Gitz Rice
Come My Lad and Be a Soldier
(music by
Harrison Brockbank
; lyrics by
Harrison Brockbank
)
Warrant Officer
We Stopped Them on the Marne
Lieutenant Gitz Rice
Act 2
A Trench Fantsay
(music by
Roy Webb
)
Act 3
Sung By
(Dear) Old Pal of Mine
(lyrics by
Harold A. Robe
)
Sergeant Jennings, U.S. Army
Little Lad
Santa Claus
I Want to Go Home
(music by
C. W. Murphy
and
Gitz Rice
; lyrics by
Worton David
and
Gitz Rice
)
Sergeant Atkins
People
Songs
Production Staff
Opening Night Cast
Replacements
Produced by
British-Canadian Recruiting Mission
and
United States Military and Naval Forces
Written by
Ian Hay
,
J. Hartley Manners
and
Percival Knight
; Music by
Gitz Rice
; Lyrics by
Gitz Rice
; Musical Director:
Manuel Klein
; Additional lyrics by
Harold A. Robe
,
Worton David
,
Percival Knight
and
Harrison Brockbank
; Additional music by
C. W. Murphy
and
Harrison Brockbank
; Incidental music by
Roy Webb
Directed by
Holbrook Blinn
and
Frederick Stanhope
Scenic Design by
Clifford Pember
; Costume Design by
Eaves
Leonard Barry
First Recruit
Blanche Bates
Mrs. Palmer
Ruth Benson
A Refugee
Harry Blakemore
A Retired Bellhop
Holbrook Blinn
Orrin Palmer
Harrison Brockbank
Warrant Officer
Santa Claus
Timothy Conway
Fourth Spectator
L. Shannon Cormack
British Sergeant
War Tank Officer
Suzanne Feday
A Waitress
James Flint
Third Recruit
Charles Francis
British Soldier
Death
British Surgeon
E. J. Kennedy
First Spectator
Second American Soldier
Dorothy Knight
Miss Fletcher
Percival Knight
Sergeant Atkins
W.J. O'Neill
Third Spectator
Arthur Ray
First American Soldier
Gitz Rice
Lieutenant Gitz Rice
Gustave Rolland
A Poilu
William Roselle
Edward Wadsworth
William Rowland
Second Recruit
Harriet Sterling
A Woman
Edwin Taylor
A Servant
Fifth Spectator
First British Soldier
John Thorne
Second Spectator
Sergeant Jennings, U.S. Army
Lyric Theatre
(Mar 18, 1918 - Mar 23, 1918)
Shubert Theatre
(Jun 03, 1918 - Aug 31, 1918)
Musical Director:
Howard A. Cook
music by
Gitz Rice
; lyrics by
Gitz Rice
(Unless otherwise noted)
Act 1
Sung By
Who Carries the Gun?
(lyrics by
Rudyard Kipling
)
Warrant Officer
You've Got to Go In or Go Under
(lyrics by
Percival Knight
)
Lieutenant Gitz Rice
Come My Lad and Be a Soldier
(music by
Harrison Brockbank
; lyrics by
Harrison Brockbank
)
Warrant Officer
We Stopped Them on the Marne
Lieutenant Gitz Rice
Act 2
A Trench Fantsay
(music by
Roy Webb
)
Act 3
Sung By
(Dear) Old Pal of Mine
(lyrics by
Harold A. Robe
)
Sergeant Jennings, U.S. Army
Little Lad
Santa Claus
I Want to Go Home
(music by
C. W. Murphy
and
Gitz Rice
; lyrics by
Worton David
and
Gitz Rice
)
Sergeant Atkins
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