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Dance and Grow Thin, 1917

Opened June 18, 1917

56 performances

Cocoanut Grove

Original

Broadway

Dance and Grow Thin
["Merrill, Blanche composer"]

Of the productions that opened in the 1910s, this had the 451st longest run.

Who was in it40 named

Geraldine Alexander
Billie Allen
Blue and White Marimba Band
Rita Boland
May Borden
The Brothers Leighton
Edna Chase
Coconut Grove Orchestra
Cecile Conway
Evelyn Conway
Florence Cripps
Arthur Cunningham
Ethel Davies
Rosa Davies
Semone D Herlys
Alma Drange
Isabel Falconer
Marguerite Falconer
Dolly Hackett
Beatrice Hughes
Joe Jackson
Agnes Jepson
Leonore Kohler
Dorothy Leeds
Vera Maxwell
Charline Mayfield
Eileen Percy
Miss Quinette
Joe Schenck
Joe Schenk
Yvonne Shelton
Lilyan Tashman
Gus van
Veronica
Marie Wallace
Allison Worth

Creative team

Director
Unknown

Around this production

Dance and Grow Thin.

The title played on the dance mania sweeping America in the 1910s, when ragtime and new social dances like the foxtrot made dancing the most popular form of entertainment and exercise.

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