Strike Up the Band, 1930

The run closed June 28, 1930

Opened

January 14, 1930

Closed

June 28, 1930

Performances

191

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Times Square Theatre

Of the 1,389 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and carry a performance count, this is the 129th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it18 named

Virginia Barnes
Robert Bentley
Ethel Britton
Joyce Coles
Walter Fairmont
Ethel Kenyon
Maurice Lapue
Paul Mccullough
Marion Miller
Margaret Schilling
Gordon Smith

7 of these 18 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 11 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters10 roles held

Dudley Clements Horace J. Fletcher
Jerry Goff Jim Townsend
Margaret Schilling Joan Fletcher
Blanche Ring Mrs. Grace Draper
Doris Carson Anne Draper
Gordon Smith Timothy Harper
Bobby Clark Man About Town / Colonel Holmes
Paul McCullough Man About Town / Gideon
Don Most Richard K. Sloane
Ethel Kenyon Myra Meade

These came out of a wiki table. The names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.

Creative team

Director

Alexander Leftwich

Choreographer

George Hale

Producer

Edgar Selwyn

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Recordings 1 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Strike Up the Band, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

• *‘The Man I Love’—cut; also used in STRIKE UP THE BAND (First) [August 29, 1927] Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 147
• SMARTY started its pre-Broadway tryout—immediately after the STRIKE UP THE BAND (First Version) [August 29, 1927] debacle—with grave problems. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 153
• With a new cast and heavily revised score, STRIKE UP THE BAND was the first hit of the Thirties. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 156
• But SMARTY—like STRIKE UP THE BAND [1927] [August 29, 1927}—faced grave tryout troubles. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 97
• Hoping to salvage STRIKE UP THE BAND despite its quick failure in 1927, producer Edgar Selwyn asked the authors for a friendlier, less-bitter rewrite. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 99

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• Which of the 1 recordings of Strike Up the Band document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.