The run closed December 8, 1945
- Opened
- July 18, 1945
- Closed
- December 8, 1945
- Performances
- 165
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Winter Garden Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 162nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it25 named
Michael Barrett
Paul Campbell
Ronnie Cunningham
Bob Douglas
Leonard Elliott
Jack Gansert
Adrienne Gray
Jack Leslie
Romo Vincent
Elline Walther
Ruth Webb
Helene Arthur
Edith Fellows
Charles Laskey
Ethel Madsen
John Mckee
Jerry Wayne
Doodles Weaver
7 of these 25 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 18 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
- Albertina Rasch
- Orchestrations
- Hans
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
This was one of the last operettas by the great Emmerich Kalman, who had fled to America from Nazi-occupied Vienna. Joan Roberts, who had originated the role of Laurey in Oklahoma! two years earlier, played Marie Vetsera.
- In the summer of 1945, an operetta called Marinka opened at the Winter Garden and proved to be the last legitimate show to play there for several years. Once again, the theatre reverted to a movie house. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 64
- Marion’s only “serious” musical was the operetta Marinka (1945), which sugar-coated the mysterious Mayerling affair. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 612
- Marinka (165) sounded as if it might be an old operetta, and had music by Emmerich Kalman to confirm it. West End Broadway the Golden Age of the American Musical Adrian Wright Boydell B, p. 44
- Emmerich Kálmán later used these tragic events as the subject of a Broadway musical, Marinka. But, in his version, instead of being found dead at their hunting lodge, the star-crossed lovers emigrate to America and settle down on a farm in Pennsylvania. Broadway Babies Say Goodnight Musicals Then and Now Mark Steyn, p. 163
- nor an operetticized version of the Mayerling story manufactured for Broadway under the girlie title of Marinka, nor an awkward Oklahoma!-clone piece of cowboyland romance called Arizona Lady left much of a mark. The Musical A Concise History Second Edition Ga Nzl Kurt Findlay Jamie 2 2022010, p. 229
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 Marinka at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.