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Shows · Sitting Pretty · Fulton Theatre, 1924

Sitting Pretty, 1924

Opened April 8, 1924

Closed June 28, 1924

95 performances

Fulton Theatre

Original

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 1920s, this had the 607th longest run.

Who was in it45 named

Alice Akers
Terry Blaine
Roger Buckley
Rudolph Cameron
Betty Campbell
Jean Castleton
Jayne Chesney
May Clark
Virginia Clark
Marian Dickson
Marjorie Eggleston
Jean Emerson
Edward Finley
Frieda Fitzgerald
Irene Griffith
Myra Hampton
Dorothy Janice
Katherine Kohler
Edouard Lefebvre
Harry Lillford
Harriet Marned
Earl Marvin
Dana Mayo
Marietta O Brien
George O Donnell
Marion Phillips
William Powers
Eugene Revere
Phyllis Reynolds
Charles Sabin
Louise Segal Converse
George Spelvin
George Sylvester
Gertrude Waixel
Charlotte Wakefield
Doris Waldron
Winthrop Wayne
Dorothy West
Albert White
Albert Wyart

Creative team

Choreographer
Julian Alfred
Orchestrations
Rob

Recordings

1 recording of Sitting Pretty exist, but none was released while this run was on. See Sitting Pretty for all of them.

Around this production

'Finding the Bliss', notes to Sitting Pretty, New World Records 80387-2 (1990), pp. 10–16.

This was the last collaboration of the famed trio of Bolton, Wodehouse, and Kern, who had revolutionized the American musical with their Princess Theatre shows in the 1910s.

Morris Gest, P.G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton, F. Ray Comstock and Jerome Kern in Detroit for the opening of Sitting Pretty, the seventh and most recent of the Princess Theatre Intimate Musical Comedies, April 8, 1924.

Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 301

‘Bongo on the Congo’ from Sitting Pretty, for instance.

The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin Gershwin Ira 1896 1983, p. 104

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