The run closed June 25, 1927
- Opened
- September 18, 1926
- Closed
- June 25, 1927
- Performances
- 321
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Shubert Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 87th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Countess Maritza 2 more that season
| 1928 | Century Theatre Revival · J. C. Huffman | 16 perf. |
| 1938 | Palace Theatre Transfer |
Who was in it16 named
Hugh Chilvers
Florence Edney
Arthur Geary
Louis E Miller
Marjorie Peterson
Arthur Rogers
Frank Sinnott
C H Tolman
Nathaniel Wagner
7 of these 16 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 9 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters7 roles recorded
Betty Fischer Countess Mariza
Richard Waldemar Prince Populescu
Max Hansen Baron Kolomán Zsupán, landowner of Varaždin
Hubert Marischka Count Tassilo of Endrödy-Wittemburg
Elsie Altmann Lisa, Tassilo's sister
Mizzi Gribl Princess Božena Guddenstein zu Clumetz
Hans Moser Penižek, her valet
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- J. C. Huffman
- Choreographer
- Carl Randall, Jack Mason
- Producer
- Messrs. Shubert
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
- Countess Maritza (1926), an operetta by Emmerich Kalman, with the popular song "Play Gypsies—Dance Gypsies," was an enormous success; At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 100
- Smith’s greatest musical successes—Robin Hood, The Spring Maid, Sweethearts, Watch Your Step, Countess Maritza, The Girl from Utah, and The Rich Mr. Hoggenheimer—were written in collaboration with such composers as Ludwig Englander, Reginald De Koven, Victor Herbert, John Philip Sousa, Robert Hood Bowers, Gus Edwards,… Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 521
- But, with few exceptions-Countess Maritza (Kalman, 1926); Bitter Sweet (Noel Coward, 1929)-foreign pieces were no longer as popular with American audiences as they had been before the war. Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 212
- Two musical comedies of great durability opened during the year: “The Desert Song” with Robert Halliday and Vivienne Segal, and “Countess Maritza” A Pictorial History of the American Theatre 1860 1985 Blum, p. 225
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Countess Maritza at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.