Very Good Eddie, 1915

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Who was in it31 named

Helen Bond
Arline Chase
Louise Cook
Sedgewick Draper
Lew Fullerton
Stuart Gillmore
Herbert Hoey
Bessie Kelly
Kuy Kendall
Adah Lewis
Dorothy Jane Londoner
James Lounsbery
Tess Mayer
Harry Mckenna
Julia Mills
Mary Louise Morrison
Dorothy Nita
Helen O Day
Anna Orr
Katherine Rahn
Georgia Spelvin
Dorothy Sylvia
Carl Wadsworth
Genevieve Willment
Morton Wood
Benjamin F Wright

Creative team

Director

Frank Sadler

Choreographer

David Bennett

Recordings

1 recording of Very Good Eddie exist, but none was released while this run was on. See Very Good Eddie for all of them.

Around this production

Very Good Eddie is a musical with a book by Guy Bolton and Philip Bartholomae, music by Jerome Kern, and lyrics by Schuyler Greene, with additional lyrics by Elsie Janis, Herbert Reynolds, Harry B. Smith, John E. Hazzard, Ring Lardner and Jerome Kern, and additional music by Henry Kailimai. The story was based on the farce Over Night by Bartholomae. The farcical plot concerns three couples and a sex-crazed voice teacher who board a Hudson River Day Line boat in Poughkeepsie, New York. Chaos ensues when two of the couples cross paths and accidentally trade partners. The vaudeville-style adventure continues at a hotel, where guests pop in and out of rooms while an inebriated desk clerk tries t…

VERY GOOD EDDIE [1915] December 23, 1915 Princess Theatre * 341 performances Lyrics mostly by Schuyler Greene and Herbert Reynolds [M. E. Rourke]; Book by Philip Bartholomae and Guy Bolton (based on Over Night [play] by Philip Bartholomae); Directed by Frank McCormick; Produced by the Marbury-Comstock Co.; With Ernest Truex, Alice Dovey, and John E. Hazzard Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 44