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Shows · The Cocoanuts · Lyric Theatre, 1925

The Cocoanuts, 1925

Opened December 8, 1925

Closed August 7, 1926

276 performances

Lyric Theatre

Original

Broadway

The Cocoanuts
H. C. Miner Litho Co

Of the productions that opened in the 1920s, this had the 125th longest run.

Other stagings of The Cocoanuts 1 more

1927
Century TheatreBroadway Return-Engagement, directed by Oscar Eagle
16 performances

Who was in it65 named

Chico Marx
Groucho Marx
Harpo Marx
Zeppo Marx
Jack Barker
The Breens
Lehman Byck
Grace Carroll
Kitty Clay
Beatrice Coniff
Ted Daniels
Billie Davis
Eugene Day
Antonio de Marco
Nina de Marco
Billy Dewolf
Xela Edwards
Roberta Haines
Georgie Hale
Rella Harrison
Madeline Janis
Peggy Jones
Mildred Kelly
Evelyn Kermin
Charles Knowlton
Andre Lapue
Maude Lydiate
Lionel Maclyn
Frances Mallory
Liane Mamet
Philip Mann
Juan Marlow
Maxine Marshall
Helen Martin
Mat Matus
Virginia Mccune
Adele Mchatton
Nesha Medwin
Eleanor Meeker
Bonnie Murray
Marjorie Murray
Hazel Patterson
Jessie Payne
Elsie Pedrick
Gladys Pender
Nancy Phillips
Florence Regan
Jerome Robertson
Maxine Robinson
Bernice Speer
Hazel Stille
Sybil Stuart
Jerry White
Henry Whittemore
Beryle Williams
Billie Williams

Creative team

Director
Oscar Eagle
Choreographer
Sammy Lee
Producer
Sam H. Harris

Around this production

musical comedy,Billed musical comedy,” The Cocoanuts embraced minstrelsy, vaudeville, revue, and opera.

The Cocoanuts, starring the Marx Brothers and with a script by George S. Kaufman (and an unacknowledged Morrie Ryskind) and score by Berlin, premieres at the Lyric Theater. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 19

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