MusicalRevueOriginalBroadway
Opening Date
Dec 31, 1917
Closing Date
Mar 23, 1918
Performances
96
MusicalRevueOriginalBroadway

ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION

Theatres
New Amsterdam Theatre
(Dec 31, 1917 - Mar 23, 1918)
Description
A Musical Comedy in Two Acts and 15 Scenes
Setting
In and around a theatre, a tailorshop and picture studio, Potash and Perlmutter's home, the music room, the slave market, the Winter Garden, Grant Mitchell's office, and the Red Cross Pavilion
Theatre Owned / Operated by Klaw & Erlanger
Produced by Cohan & Harris
Book by George M. Cohan; Music by George M. Cohan and Irving Berlin; Lyrics by George M. Cohan and Irving Berlin; Music orchestrated by Frank Sadler; Musical Director: Charles J. Gebest
Staged by George M. Cohan; Musical Staging by Jack Mason, James Gorman and George M. Cohan
Ladies' costumes by Schneider-Anderson Company; Miss Bayes' hats and gowns designed by Lucile; Men's costumes by Eaves Costume Company; Men's modern clothes by Max Marx
Nora Bayes
Polly of the Follies
 
Madame Sand
 
Music Memory
 
Florence Reed
Jessica Brown
Bessie McCoy
 
The She Dancer
 
The Dancing Slave
Paul E. Burns
Perlmutter
 
Flynn
Charles Dow Clark
Belasco
a manager
C. Bert Dunlop
Frank Tinney
John B. Dyllyn
The King's Attendant
 
Music Minister
 
Chu Chin Chow
Murry Evans
Frank Craven
Irving Fisher
Jazbo
the Hindoo
 
A Soldier Boy
Edward Gepp
Bluch
Eleanor Henry
Tiger Rose
 
Miss Melody
Arthur Hill
A Regular Tiger
 
A Spanish Bull
 
Bosco
Sydney Jarvis
Bill McDevlin
 
Lionel Ibbetson
 
Music Writer
 
Mitchell's Stenographer
 
Russell
Neil Kelly
A Newsboy
Lou Lockett
Mr. Maytime
 
The He Dancer
Paul Nicholson
Ziegfeld
 
Hitchy Koo
 
Jack Ibbetson
 
Corbett
 
Nathan
Lila Rhodes
Miss Maytime
 
Tanya Huber
the tailor's daughter
 
Miss Harmony
Lucille Romain
Miss 1918
Frederick Santley
John Paul Bart
a tailor's hand
 
Mr. Words
 
A Slave Auctioneer
 
Tailor-Made Mitchell
Al Stedman
Belasco's Office Boy
 
Blond
the Kings detective
 
Count Zucco
the Kings chamberlain
 
Music Butler
 
Another Minister
Fanny Stedman
Rosie Potash
 
Marjorie Rambeau
Phil White
Potash
 
Hart
Hans Wilson
Jack O'Lantern
Charles Winninger
King Leo
of Moldavia
 
Mitchell's Secretary

New Amsterdam Theatre (Dec 31, 1917 - Mar 23, 1918)

Cast

Harold Tuppin
Bluch
music by Irving Berlin; lyrics by George M. Cohan
(Unless otherwise noted)
Act 1
(Polly) Pretty Polly
Show Me the Way
(lyrics by Irving Berlin)
Ensemble
(music by George M. Cohan)
When Ziegfeld's Follies Hit the Town
(music by George M. Cohan)
Our Acrobatic Melodramatic Home
(music by George M. Cohan)
Spanish
The Eyes of Youth See the Truth
(music by George M. Cohan)
All Dressed Up In a Tailor-Made
(music by George M. Cohan)
The Potash and Perlmutter Ball
(music by George M. Cohan)
A Man Is Only a Man
(lyrics by Irving Berlin)
King of Broadway
(lyrics by Irving Berlin)
The Wedding of Words and Music
(lyrics by Irving Berlin)
Act 2
The Gathering of the Slaves
(music by Irving Berlin and George M. Cohan; lyrics by Irving Berlin and George M. Cohan)
The Slave Dance
(music by Irving Berlin and George M. Cohan; lyrics by Irving Berlin and George M. Cohan)
A Bad Chinaman from Shanghai
(lyrics by Irving Berlin)
Down Where the Pumpkins Grow
(lyrics by Irving Berlin)
The Old Maid Blues
(music by David W. Guion; lyrics by Web Maddox)
Who Do You Love?
(music by Ed Moran; lyrics by James Brockmann)
Their Hearts Are Over Here
(music by George M. Cohan)
Finale
(music by Irving Berlin and George M. Cohan; lyrics by Irving Berlin and George M. Cohan)
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