Sunny Miller, Marilyn performer Donahue, Jack performer Theatrical Performance 1925-09-22 New Amsterdam Theater A musical comedy in two acts, 12 Scenes. book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. Music by Jerome Kern. Staged by Hassard Short. Dances staged by Julian Mitchell and David Bennett. Miss Miller's Hunt Ball danced arranged by Alexis Kosloff. Eight Cocktail Dances staged by John Tiller. Miss Miller's dances with boys by Fred Astaire. Opened 22 September 1925 at the New Amsterdam Theatre and closed 11 December 1926 after 517 performances. Sunny Peters played by Marilyn Miller in the title role; Jim Deering played by Jack Donahue featured in Act I Scene 3 "Let's Say Good Night Til It's Morning" with Mary Hay; "Do You Love Me?" (D'ye Love Me) with M. Miller; Act I Scene 1 "When We Get Our Divorce" with M. Miller; and "Who?" (reprise) with M. Miller, Clifton Webb, and M. Hay. In Act I scene 6 "Two Little Bluebirds" Webb and Hay provided the evening's best eccentric dancing. Marilyn Miller's "light tap dancing and graceful ballet-like pirouettes is what the public came to see. Miss Miller's voice was not big...But her airy footwork, her beauty, and her indefinable magnetism were more than enough compensation." (Norton 1925.33) Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Bordman, Gerald: American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle. New York: Oxford University Press (1992). Norton Anthology of Drama: Norton Anthology of Drama: Nineteenth Century to the Present (Vol. 2). W.W. Norton & Company (2009). Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html Jack Donahue (biography) loc.music.tdabio.74 tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.923