Mae West - Broadway Stage

Broadway stage
Date Production Role Notes
01911-09-22September 22, 1911 – September 30, 1911 A La Broadway Maggie O'Hara
01911-11-20November 20, 1911 – February 24, 1912 Vera Violetta West left show during previews
01912-04-11April 11, 1912 – September 7, 1912 Winsome Widow, AA Winsome Widow Le Petite Daffy West left show after opening night
01918-10-04October 4, 1918 – June 1919 Sometime
01921-08-17August 17, 1921 – September 10, 1921 Mimic World of 1921, TheThe Mimic World of 1921
01926-04-26April 26, 1926 – March 1927 Sex Margie LaMont Written by Jane Mast (West)
01927-01-01January 1927 Drag, TheThe Drag closed during out-of-town tryouts (Bridgeport, Connecticut)
credited only as writer
01927-11-01November 1927 Wicked Age, TheThe Wicked Age Evelyn ("Babe") Carson
01928-04-09April 9, 1928 – September 1928 Diamond Lil Diamond Lil
01928-10-01October 1, 1928 –October 2, 1928 Pleasure Man, TheThe Pleasure Man credited only as writer
01931-09-14September 14, 1931 – November 1931 Constant Sinner, TheThe Constant Sinner Babe Gordon
01944-08-02August 2, 1944 – January 13, 1945 Catherine Was Great Catherine II
01945-01-011945–1946 Come On Up Tour
01947-09-01September 1947 – May 1948 Diamond Lil Diamond Lil (Revival) United Kingdom
01949-02-05February 5, 1949 – February 26, 1949 Diamond Lil Diamond Lil (2nd Revival) until West broke her ankle on the latter date.
The play resumed as a "return engagement"
01949-09-07September 7, 1949 – January 21, 1950 Diamond Lil Diamond Lil (2nd Revival) as "return engagement"
01951-09-14September 14, 1951 – November 10, 1951 Diamond Lil Diamond Lil (3rd Revival)
01961-07-07July 7, 1961 – closing date unknown Sextette Edgewater Beach Playhouse
Other plays as writer
Other plays as writer
Year Title Notes
1921 Ruby Ring, TheThe Ruby Ring Vaudeville playlet
1922 Hussy, TheThe Hussy Unproduced
1930 Frisco Kate Unproduced, later produced as the 1936 film Klondike Annie
1933 Loose Women Performed in 1935 under title Ladies By Request
1936 Clean Beds Sold treatment to George S. George, who produced
an unsuccessful Broadway play of West's treatment

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