Fritzi Scheff

On stage 13 productions, 45 years

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In the literature8 passages

• Cast : Fritzi Scheff, Walter Percival, William Pruette, Claude Gillingwater, Josephine Bartlettebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Mlle. Modiste. Fritzi Scheff in the final scene at the charity bazaar in the gardens of the Château de St. Mar. From the left are Walter Percival (in uniform), William Pruette, and Claud Gillingwater. (Byron)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• 65 . “Fritzi Scheff as Babette,” New York Times , Nov. 17, 1903. Quoted in Bordman, Chronicle , 197.ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt
• Herbert then scored two successive hits with Mlle Modiste and The Red Mill , both with librettos by Henry Blossom (1866–1919). Mlle Modiste starred Fritzi Scheff in the role of the milliner Fifi. The Viennese-born Scheff (1879–1954) had trained as an opera singer and performed at the Metropolitan Opera House before decamping to Broadway w…ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
• a comic opera which brought Fritzi Scheff, who had been singing sixteen leading roles with the Metropolitan Opera Company while still in her teens, to the Broadway stage for the first time; Paula Edwardes bowing as a star in “Winsome Winnie” with Julia Sanderson in a minor role; Anna Held in “Mam’selle Napoleon;” Irene Bentley in “The Gir…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
• and Fields, was playing in “Lady Teazle,” a musical version of Sheridan’s “The School For Scandal.” Charles B. Dillingham, was presenting Fritzi Scheff in a musical version of Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer,” called “The Two Roses.” George M. Cohan had his first starring engagement in “Littletheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

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