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Shows · Oh, Kay! · Imperial Theatre, 1926

Oh, Kay!, 1926

Opened November 8, 1926

256 performances

Imperial Theatre

Original

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 1920s, this had the 143rd longest run.

Other stagings of Oh, Kay! 3 more

1927
ProductionLondon
1928
Century TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Harry Howell
16 performances
1990
Richard Rodgers TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Dan Siretta
77 performances

Who was in it60 named

Adrienne Armond
Sascha Beaumont
Marcia Bell
Bonnie Blackwood
Dowell Brown
Grace Carroll
Jean Carroll
Melville Chapman
Ted Daniels
Eugene Day
Frances Defoe
Ann Ecklund
Madeleine Fairbanks
Marion Fairbanks
Kappie Fay
Al Fisher
Jack Fraley
Amy Frank
Elsie Frank
Frank Gardiner
Bob Gebhardt
Janette Gilmore
Anita Gordon
Sara Jane Heliker
Peggy Johnstone
Grace Jones
Dot Justin
Lionel Maclyn
Pansy Maness
Maxine Marshall
Tom Martin
Gloria Murray
Elsie Neal
Blanche O Donahue
Marie Otto
Caroline Phillips
Peggy Quinn
Dorothy Saunders
Harry T Shannon
Alan Stevens
Frances Stone
Jacques Stone
May Sullivan
Betty Vane
Betty Waxton
Claire Wayne
Jean Wayne
Amy Weber
Justine Welch
Ted White
Polly Williams
Paulette Winston

Creative team

Director
John Harwood
Choreographer
Sammy Lee
Producer
Alex A. Aarons & Vinton Freedley

Recordings

2 recordings of Oh, Kay! exist, but none were released while this run was on. See Oh, Kay! for all of them.

Around this production

“It was the opposite of plagiarism; we'll call it donorism.” —Howard Dietz on Ira Gershwin, who gave him credit for the lyrics of the title song for which Dietz wrote a rejected lyric. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 238

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