The run closed July 21, 1934
- Opened
- November 18, 1933
- Closed
- July 21, 1934
- Performances
- 295
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- New Amsterdam Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 49th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it68 named
Barbara Adams
Ray Adams
Berenice Alaire
Leon Alton
Michael Alvarez
Dorothy Atkins
Bob Barrett
Elsie Behrens
Norma Butler
Sally Bynum
California Collegians
Phyllis Cameron
Barbara Child
Bobette Christine
Florence Chumbecos
Aida Conkey
Lola de Lille
Bert Doughty
Jack Douglas
Rene du Plessis
Jane Evans
Rose Gale
Bob Gray
Helen Gray
William Hain
Bunny Hallow
Ruth Hamilton
Vernon Hammer
Buddy Hertelle
Ed Jerome
Edna Johnson
Allan Jones
Lillian Lamonte
Dorothy Lane
Catherine Laughlin
Raymond E Middleton
Evelyn Monte
Herb Montei
John Muccio
Nayan Pearce
John Peters
Carole Renwick
Josephine Roberts
Marion Ross
Jimmy Ryan
Tania Sania
Stanislaw Sarmatoff
Ruth Shaw
Gretchen Sherman
Rosalie Trego
Mavis Walsh
Sandra Walters
Clara Waring
Virginia Whitmore
Barbara Williams
Lou Wood
Neil Wood
Nonie Dale
Peggy Fish
Arden Kendrick
8 of these 68 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 60 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
- Jose Limon
- Orchestrations
- Robert Russell
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
Roberta is a musical from 1933 with music by Jerome Kern, and lyrics and book by Otto Harbach. The playful romantic comedy is based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller. It features the songs "Yesterdays", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "Let's Begin", "You're Devastating", "Something Had To Happen", "The Touch of Your Hand" and "I'll Be Hard to Handle".
Bob Hope tickles the ivories while Fay Templeton (seated) listens approvingly in Roberta, 1933.
Speaker not recorded. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 302- Laura Hunt and Waldo Lydecker (Vera Caspary’s mystery novel Laura ), who saw Roberta, Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 887
- His next Broadway show was a success with critics and audiences. The Cat and the Fiddle (10/15/31; 395 performances) paired Harbach with Jerome Kern. The fine score boasted such standards as “Try to Forget,” “She Didn’t Say Yes,” and “The Night Was Made for Love.” The following year saw Kern and Harbach’s Roberta (11/1… Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 241
- Kern’s Roberta, with lyrics by Otto Harbach, and yet another from the first Fred and Ginger eight, also deserves consideration as one of the finest contemporary film adaptations of a staged musical comedy (with significant touches of operetta). Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 199
- Hassard Short, director of production, lighting, and musical sequences, who had designed illustrious shows for two decades, including The Band Wagon, Roberta, and Jubilee. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 651
- He continued to write shows that fused different approaches to musical theater during the early 1930s, such as The Cat and the Fiddle (1931), Music in the Air (1932), and Roberta (1933). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 212
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 character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Roberta at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.