Shows · You Never Know · Winter Garden Theatre, 1938
You Never Know, 1938
Opened September 21, 1938
Closed November 26, 1938
78 performances
Original
Broadway
Of the productions that opened in the 1930s, this had the 330th longest run.
Who was in it45 named
The Debonairs
Dan Harden
The Hartmans
Charles Kemper
Rex O Malley
June Preisser
Roger Stearns
Joanna Allen
Wesley Bender
Helen Bennett
Marion Broske
Mary Ann Carr
Dorothy Compton
Jacqueline Dahlia
Virginia Daly
Natasha Dana
Louise de Forrest
Ray Dennis
Enez Early
Helen Ecklund
Barbara Elliott
Eddie Gale
Grace Gillern
Chris Gustafson
Billie Hill
Helen Hudson
Irene Kelly
Edith Lambot
Alice Mcwhorter
Mary Ann O Brien
Mildred Ramey
Jack Richards
Mildred Riley
Gus Schirmer
Robert Smith
Lee Stephenson
Arlene Stone
Ellen Taylor
Creative team
- Director
- Rowland Leigh
- Choreographer
- Robert Alton
Recordings
1 recording of You Never Know exist, but none was released while this run was on. See You Never Know for all of them.
Around this production
You Never Know is a musical with a book by Rowland Leigh, adapted from the original European play By Candlelight, by Siegfried Geyer and Karl Farkas, with music by Cole Porter and Robert Katscher, lyrics by Cole Porter, additional lyrics by Leigh and Edwin Gilbert, directed by Leigh, and songs by others. The show was written not long after the riding accident that left Porter semi-crippled.
You Never Know (9/21/38; 78 performances), Porter’s first Broadway assignment after the accident, opened at the WINTER GARDEN THEATRE. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 438
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