The run closed July 10, 1926
- Opened
- December 30, 1925
- Closed
- July 10, 1926
- Performances
- 219
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- 44th Street Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 191st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it69 named
Vasily Andrewsky
Alice Ankers
Miriam Avendale
Chester Bennett
Ima Berline
Hal Bird
Dorothy Booth
Marion Booth
Helen Bowers
Phoebe Brune
Konstantin Buketoff
Hugh Cameron
Adelaide Candee
Terry Carroll
Blanche Collins
Ann Constance
William Cooper
Betty Credito
Louise Dalberg
Lotta Fanning
Paul Florence
Bernard Gorcey
Mary Green
Georgia Gwynne
Buddie Haines
Elvinne Hall
James Herold
Louise Hersey
Edith Higgens
Elizabeth Hill
Margie Horton
Gene Hylan
Zina Ivanova
Carolyn Johnson White
Dorothy Lee
Bob Leroy
Harry Long
Lillyan Lyndon
Elsie Marcus
Miss Milli
Christine Moray
Frances Nevins
Lylian Ojala
Lucille Osborn
Sylvia Pagano
Adelaide Permin
Anna Petrenko
Laurie Phillips
Ruby Poe
Troupe Reynolds
Elsa Roelofsma
Ruth Sato
Ula Sharon
Emily Sherman
Jeannie St John
Leonard St Leo
Audrey Sturges
Dorothy Thattell
Frances Thress
Philip Titman
Willard Tyson
Miss Verdi
Donald Wells
Eileen Wenzel
Paul Wilson
4 of these 69 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 65 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
- Frank Reicher
- Choreographer
- Jack Haskell
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 the Flame is an operetta with music by Herbert Stothart and George Gershwin, and a musical book and lyrics co-written by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto A. Harbach. Organized into a prologue, two acts, and an epilogue, the operetta is set in Moscow, Russia and Paris, France in the Spring of 1917. Song of the Flame premiered on Broadway at the 44th Street Theatre on December 30, 1925. It ran for a total of 219 performances; closing on July 10, 1926 after 219 performances. Directed by Frank Reicher and choreographed by Jack Haskell, the production used sets created by the Australian designer Joseph Urban and costumes designed by Mark Mooring. The cast included Phoebe Brune as Natasha, Gr…
- An unlikely success was Arthur Hammerstein’s operetta Song of the Flame (12/30/25; 214 performances), which had a strange grouping of song. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 193
- Song of the Flame (1925) with George Gershwin and Stothart; and the still-revived The Desert Song (1926) with Sigmund Romberg. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 49
- Gershwin was chosen for this Russian opus, which opened just two days after TIP-TOES [December 28, 1925]. The result was successful but pedestrian. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 95
- “Song of the Flame” with Guy Robertson and Tessa Kosta and “Sky High” starring Willie Howard. A Pictorial History of the American Theatre 1860 1985 Blum, p. 221
- Song of the Flame (1925) with George Gershwin and Stothart; Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat To Sondheim and Lloyd Web, p. 50
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 the Flame at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.