The run closed May 1, 1937
- Opened
- February 4, 1937
- Closed
- May 1, 1937
- Performances
- 94
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 287th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it54 named
Jack Barrett
Mary Jane Barrett
Wesley Bender
Boris Butleroff
Patricia Caron
Charles Columbus
Marvel Conheney
Ted Daniels
Betti Davis
Wheeler Dryden
Marilyn Duane
Lipman Duckat
Joan Engel
Dorothy Forsythe
Diana Gaylen
Roger Gerry
Betty Gour
Gene Greenlaw
Edith Gresham
Vernon Hammer
Harriette Henning
Dorothy Hess
Nancy Knott
Walter Lewis
Ralph Magelssen
Earl Mcdonald
Dolly Miller
Edward Murray
William Newgord
William Parker
Alicia Parnahay
Doris Patston
Jack Phillips
Sonny Quinn
Frances Rands
Fred Ratliffe
Mary Rhodes
James Ryan
George Sampson
Mildred Schroeder
Fred Sherman
Mae Sigler
Ulita Torgerson
George Trabert
Arthur Vinton
Katherine von Den Knesebeck
Clara Waring
Rose Winter
J Arthur Young
5 of these 54 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 49 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.
Creative team
- Director
- Hassard Short
- Choreographer
- Chester Hale
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
Based on Lehar's 1928 Viennese operetta about the young Goethe, this was one of the last European operettas to play Broadway. Dennis King, a major musical theatre star of the era, played Goethe.
- Frederika, a musical by Dietz and Schwartz, showcased three bright British stars but ran for only 93 performances due to the distasteful bigamy theme. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 178
- The operetta form was almost totally dead, but the Shuberts opened the Franz Lehar operetta Frederika (2/4/37; 94 performances) at the Imperial. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 277
- In 1937, Jake produced his first show in years, Frederika, but the operetta closed after only 94 performances. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 510
- LEHÁR, FRANZ (1870–1948). Composer of Viennese operetta whose The Merry Widow, when it first appeared in an English-language adaptation on Broadway in 1907, caused a huge sensation and reinvigorated American audiences’ interest in Viennese-style opéra comique. Other Lehár works to appear on Broadway (with the years of… Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 226
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 character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Frederika at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.