Shows · Hello, Daddy
A prosperous businessman discovers that a young woman he has been secretly supporting may be his illegitimate daughter. His attempts to conceal this connection from his wife and family lead to a series of comic complications involving mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, and escalating farce as multiple characters pursue their own agendas at cross purposes.
- Opened
- 1928
- Performances
- 198
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Early
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1928 | Mansfield Theatre Original. December 26, 1928 · John Murray Anderson | 198 performances |
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4 passages naming Hello, Daddy, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
The opening attraction at Erlanger's on the night of September 26, 1927, was George M. Cohan's musical Merry Malones, which got the new theatre off to a good start. It played for 192 performances, then returned for 16 additional performances. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p275
Dorothy Fields, whose first book musical, Hello, Daddy, he produced. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p81
Mary Lawlor was a pretty big star in her time. The titles of the shows in which she appeared give a sense of her talents: No, No, Nanette; Queen High; Cross My Heart; Hello, Daddy; You Said It—and Good News, of course. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p142
Lew’s final book musical was the aptly titled HELLO, DADDY! [December 26, 1928]—written by Herbert and Dorothy (with Jimmy McHugh). book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p196
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