The run closed September 7, 1946
- Opened
- August 21, 1944
- Closed
- September 7, 1946
- Performances
- 860
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 17th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it99 named
Sylvia Allen
Ann Andre
Robert Bailes
Robert Bernard
Robert Bernoff
Elizabeth Bockoven
Lewis Bolyard
Barbara Boudwin
Mary Bradley
Patti Brady
Frank Brenneman
Betty Burge
Grace Carroll
William Carroll
Marjorie Castle
John Chaloupka
Shirley Conklin
Kaye Connor
Paul de Poyster
Audrey Dearden
Kent Edwards
Jean Faust
Milton Feher
Pauline Goddard
Cameron Grant
Audrey Guard
Roland Guerard
Leone Hall
Janet Hamer
Harold Haskin
Larry Haynes
Hal Horton
Gwen Jones
Jeanne Jones
Raymond Keast
Francis Kiernan
Walter Kingsford
Eric Kristen
Jackie Lee
Dorothie Littlefield
Karen Lund
Gerald Matthews
Hal Mcmurrin
Ewing Mitchell
Sonya Orlova
Pat O Rourke
Adda Pourmel
Yura Radine
Carlye Ramey
Sharon Randall
Shannon Randolph
Margaret Ritter
Ivy Scott
Rosine Sedova
Gloria Stone
Nat Stoudenmire
Toni Stuart
Olga Suarez
Sviatoslav Toumine
Mary Walker
Arthur Waters
Nora White
Philip White
Doreen Wilson
Anna Wiman
Maurice Winthrop
Stanley Wolfe
Walter Young
Norvel Campbell
Carl Cleighton
Barbara Cole
Harry Day
Paul Elmer
Alexander Goudovitch
Marybly Harwood
John Henson
Joyce Hill
Betty Hyatt
Kirsten Kenyon
Natalie Leshner
Helen Molveau
Melva Niles
Maureen O Brien
Mariane Oliphant
Richard Reed
Fred Rivett
Bette van
Marc West
Diane Woods
10 of these 99 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 89 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
- Edwin Lester, Charles K. Freeman
- Choreographer
- George Balanchine
- Producer
- Edwin Lester
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
SONG OF NORWAY (21 AUGUST 1944, IMPERIAL, 860 PERFORMANCES). Musical adaptation and lyrics by Robert Wright 320 • SOND AND DANCE Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 361
- Balanchine, George Babes in Arms Boys from Syracuse, The Cabin in the Sky I Married an Angel Louisiana Purchase Merry Widow, The On Your Toes Song of Norway Where’s Charley? Ziegfeld Follies Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 387
- While Song of Norway (1944) was a long-running hit that utilized the music of Edvard Grieg in order to tell his story, a popular musical biography of Tchaikovsky was not to be. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 173
- The operetta Song of Norway moved from the Imperial in 1946, and the propaganda play A Flag Is Born transferred from the Music Box. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 208
- Fritz Kreisler’s romantic tunes were the basis of Rhapsody, produced in the same year as The Song of Norway: 1944. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 175
- Their biggest hits, Song of Norway (1944—based on the works of Edvard Grieg) and Kismet, also began life on the West Coast and contained the standards “Strange Music,” “Freddie and His Fiddle,” “Stranger in Paradise,” and “Baubles, Bangles and Beads.” Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 176
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 Song of Norway at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.