Production Info

Opening October 21, 1933
Closing: January 6, 1934
Length of Run: 90 perf.
Run Type: Open-ended

Location: New York, NY

Credits Highlights

... Book Staging	George S. Kaufman
... Dances and Ensembles	Von Grona Ned McGurn

... Gen. Adam Snookfield, U.S.A.	Florenz Ames
... Trixie Flynn	Grace Worth
... Francis X. Gilhooley	Harold Moffet
... Louis Lippman	Abe Reynolds
... Mary Wintergreen	Lois Moran
... John P. Wintergreen	William Gaxton
... The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court	Ralph Riggs
... Alexander Throttlebottom	Victor Moore
... Kruger	Philip Loeb
... John P. Tweedledee	Richard Temple (i)

Overture
Wintergreen for President .... Ensemble
Tweedledee for President .... Ensemble
Union Square .... Ensemble
Down With Everyone That's Up .... Kruger and Agitators
Shirts by Millions .... Wives and Ensemble
Comes the Revolution .... Throttlebottom and Ensemble
Mine .... Wintergreen, Mary and Ensemble
Climb Up the Social Ladder .... Mary, Wives and Ensemble
Cloistered from the Noisy City .... President of the Union League Club and Club Members
On and On and On .... Wintergreen, Mary and Ensemble
Finale
- Double Dummy Drill
- Let 'Em Eat Cake .... Wintergreen and Company

Blue, Blue, Blue .... Wives and Ensemble
Who's the Greatest––––––? ..... Wintergreen and Ensemble
No Comprenez, No Capish .... League of Nations
When the Judges Doff the Ermine .... Chief Justice and Blue Shirts
The Trial of Throttlebottom
- That's What He Did .... Throttlebottom, Kruger and Ensemble
- I Know a Foul Ball .... Throttlebottom
- Throttle Throttlebottom .... Kruger and Ensemble
A Hell of a Hole .... Wintergreen, Kruger and Soldiers
Hanging Throttlebottom in the Morning .... Ensemble

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Florenz Ames played General Snookfield in both this production and the subsequent national tour. He also played The French Ambassador in Of Thee I Sing (to which Let 'Em Eat Cake was a sequel) in the original Broadway cast, the Broadway return engagement and the 1952 Broadway revival.