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Shows · The Girl Friend · Vanderbilt Theatre, 1926

The Girl Friend, 1926

Opened March 17, 1926

Closed December 4, 1926

301 performances

Vanderbilt Theatre

Original

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 1920s, this had the 109th longest run.

Who was in it38 named

Dorothy Barber
Olive Beebe
Walter Bigelow
Dorothy Brown
Arthur C Budd
Evelyn Cavanaugh
Austin Clark
Roy Clements
Gertrude Cole
Eva Condon
Frank Doane
Francis X Donegan
Joel Duroe
A Goodrich
Eve Marie Gray
Jack Kogan
Alice Kosta
Ainsley Lambert
Eddie Leslie
Carol Lynne
William Marshall
Elizabeth Mears
Gypsy Mooney
Jan Moore
Herman Newman
Virginia Otis
Leon Rose
Dorothy Roy
Paul Sabin
Silvia Shawn
Helen Shepard
K Smith Stanley
Evelyn Ruth Urilda
Sanford Wolf

Creative team

Director
John Harwood
Choreographer
Jack Haskell
Orchestrations
Maurice De Packh

Around this production

it was billed under the more attractive title of the rejected show: The Girl Friend.

The show introduced the standard 'The Blue Room,' one of Rodgers and Hart's most beloved songs. With 301 performances, it was one of their biggest early hits.

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