The London cast was headed by Sonnie Hale, Jessie Matthews and Maisie Gay, and Tilly Losch choreographed and performed in dance sequences.

The show was successful both in the West End and on Broadway, earned mostly strong notices, and introduced some of Coward's enduring songs.

[5] The large cast, headed by Sonnie Hale, Jessie Matthews, Tilly Losch and Maisie Gay, also included Douglas Byng, Joan Clarkson, Sheilah Graham, Fred Groves, Moya Nugent and Marjorie Robertson (later a star under the stage name Anna Neagle).

His biographer Philip Hoare writes that it "earn[ed] Coward the immense sum of £1000 a week in royalties,[n 3] and further income from sales in their thousands of the hit songs in sheet music and gramophone records".

Coward wrote that the show was unchanged except for the interpolation of two solo numbers for Lillie: "World Weary" and "I Can't Think" (an imitation of Gertrude Lawrence); and two duets for Coward and Lillie: "Lilac Time", a burlesque of opéra bouffe, and "Love, Life and Laughter", a sketch and song of Paris night life in the 1880s.

[12] These numbers replaced "Mad About You", "It Doesn't Matter how Old You Are", "Spanish Fantasy", and the Tilly Losch items "Gothic" and "Arabesque".

Coward usually made it a rule not to play in any production for more than three months, but such was the demand for tickets that he was persuaded to remain for the whole run.

[16] Maisie Gay led the cast in a tour of Australia in 1929,[17] but thereafter, like most revues, This Year of Grace was not revived,[18] although several of its numbers have been incorporated in later shows such as Cowardy Custard and Oh, Coward!.