The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- August 5, 1915
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 356
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Casino Theatre
Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 28th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Who was in it56 named
Helen Arlington
Walter Armin
Betty Barclay
William Belton
James Billings
Jack Birkson
Monna Blanchard
Carolyn Burke
Hattie Burks
Joan Butlin
Bunty Davidson
Carrie de Noville
Mabel Debahlul
Joseph Dillon
Ray Dodge
Winnifred Dunn
Marie Finney
Lottie Franklyn
Bernard Fritze
Marion George
Rose Gibson
Betty Grant
Gertrude Harrison
Eugene Hohenwart
Charles Holly
Kitty Kerwin
Lucille Martin
Richard Melbourne
Elsa Mitchener
Mary Moriarty
Gypsy O Brien
Prudence O Shea
Robert G Pitkin
Alice Randolph
Josephine Ray
Stanley Rayburn
Nat Sanders
Mona Sartoris
Otto Schrader
Sydelle Seit
Ruby Simpson
Edward Smith
Charles Starr
Dick Stewart
Charles Townshend
Camille Truesdale
Frank Wayne
Charles Weston
Alta Young
7 of these 56 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 49 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
- J.H. Benrimo
- Choreographer
- Ed Hutchinson
- Producer
- Messrs. Shubert
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 fourth longest running book musical of the 1910’s, The Blue Paradise gave Sigmund Romberg his first chance to compose the kind of sentimental, romantic songs with which he would become identified. (His total Broadway output — including shows for which he shared the writing assignment — was a record 57 productions.) Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 34
- Among the most popular of these were Oscar Straus’s A Waltz Dream, Leo Fall’s The Dollar Princess, Straus’s The Chocolate Soldier, Heinrich Reinhardt’s The Spring Maid, Johann Strauss’s The Merry Countess (Die Fiedermaus), Lehar’s The Count of Luxembourg, Emmerich Kalman’s Sari, and Edmund Eysler’s The Blue Paradise (w… Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 39
- The Blue Paradise (08/ 05/13; 356 performances) broke the long succession of failures with its score by SIGMUND RomBerG, Edmund Eysler, and Herbert Reynolds. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 122
- The Blue Paradise (8/5/15; 356 performances), with lyrics by Herbert Reynolds; and A World of Pleasure (10/14/15; 116 performances). These shows were all relatively successful, and most made money for the Shuberts. The Blue Paradise contained Romberg’s first hit song, “Auf Wiedersehen.” Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 474
- He also worked on adaptations of Central European operettas for Broadway such as The Blue Paradise (1915). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 59
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 The Blue Paradise at all.
- When it closed.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.