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Shows · Treasure Girl · Alvin Theatre, 1928

Treasure Girl, 1928

Opened November 8, 1928

Closed January 5, 1929

68 performances

Neil Simon Theatre

Original

Broadway

Treasure Girl, 1928

Of the productions that opened in the 1920s, this had the 808th longest run.

Who was in it81 named

Florence Allen
Nitza Andre
Sidney Ayres
Charles Barron
Marcia Bell
Edwin Bidwell
Frank G Bond
Claire Carroll
Jean Carroll
Betty Clark
Cleo Cullen
Norman Curtis
Eugene Day
Dotte Desykva
John Dunsmure
Kathleen Edwardes
Evelyn Farrell
Stephen Francis
Virginia Franck
Sherry Gale
E M Gall
Victor Garland
Regis Geary
Bob Gebhardt
Ferris Hartman
Thomas Hodges
Alma Hookey
Edward Humbert
Joyce Johnson
Richard Keith
Adrienne Lampel
William L Mack
Lionel Maclyn
Helen Mann
Vida Manuel
Frances Markey
Mabel Martin
Isobel Mason
Pauline Mason
Ethel Maye
John Mcavoy
Billy Mccarver
Anabel Mcmann
Maureen Mcneil
Lillian Michel
Jack Morton
Alfonso Mullarkey
Elsie Neal
Wilma Novak
Daniel O Brien
Peggy O Neill
Tony Otto
Ruth Penery
Edwin Preble
Peggy Quinn
Alli Raddigan
Marvyne Ray
Fritz Reinhard
Wilma Roeloff
W Kenneth Shepard
Helen Sills
Sam Simpson
Kay Smythe
Florence Spink
Jack Stevens
Jacques Stone
Gwendolyn Vernon
Betty Vine
Sims Walker
Beryl Wallace
Walter Wandell
Betty Wright

Creative team

Choreographer
Bobby Connolly

Around this production

Treasure Girl is a 1928 American musical with a book by Fred Thompson and Vincent Lawrence, music by George Gershwin, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was one of the several Gershwin shows produced by Alex A. Aarons and Vinton Freedley. Seven songs from Treasure Girl were published by Harms Inc. in 1928: "I Don't Think I'll Fall in Love Today," "K-Ra-Zy For You," "Feeling I'm Falling," "Got a Rainbow" (also known as "I've Got a Rainbow"), "Oh, So Nice!," "What Are We Here For?", and "Where's the Boy? Here's the Girl!" The musical's best-known song, "(I've Got a) Crush on You," was first published in 1930 when it was reused in Strike Up the Band. It was not until Lee Wiley's 1939 recording that…

First performance of Treasure Girl at the Shubert Theatre, Philadelphia. The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin Gershwin Ira 1896 1983, p. 29

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