The run closed January 16, 1926
- Opened
- September 2, 1924
- Closed
- January 16, 1926
- Performances
- 557
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 16th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it11 named
Lela Bliss
Edward Ciannelli
Frank Greene
Arthur Ludwig
7 of these 11 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 4 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
- Paul Dickey
- Choreographer
- David Bennett
- Producer
- Arthur Hammerstein
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
- The fact that the story deals with a murder was considered something of a novelty for a musical as was the conscientious effort, though it was not entirely successful, to integrate the musical pieces into the story. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 51
- The musical was a hit in London, opening at His Majesty’s Theatre on May 19, 1933, for 275 performances and starring Mary Ellis, Broadway’s original Rose-Marie. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 206
- In September 1924 this theatre housed one of its most celebrated shows, the Rudolf Friml operetta Rose-Marie, with a book by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. According to Gerald Bordman in American Musical Theatre, this musical was "not only the biggest hit of the season, but the biggest grosser of the decade." M… At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 175
- Hammerstein, who still believed in Friml, paired him with his nephew Oscar for Rose-Marie (9/2/24; 581 performances). Herbert Stothart also contributed music to the operetta. Mary Ellis played the title role, and operetta favorite Dennis King played her lover. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 196
- Rose-Marie wasn’t an entirely integrated work—Hammerstein’s later Show Boat came much closer to this ideal—but it was another step on the road to a truly American operetta, a form that had its greatest success with Oklahoma! The critics didn’t fully agree with Hammerstein when he wrote, “The revolution in musical comed… Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 198
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 Rose-Marie at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.