The run closed September 24, 1932
- Opened
- October 15, 1931
- Closed
- September 24, 1932
- Performances
- 395
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 28th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Cat And The Fiddle 1 more that season
| 1907 | West End Theatre Original | 8 perf. |
Who was in it20 named
Peter Chambers
Lisa Guigon
George Kirk
Dorothy Lane
George Magis
Georgianna Orr
Karl Theman
Lucette Valsy
Fred Walton
Frances Wise
10 of these 20 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 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
- Jose Ruben
- Choreographer
- Albertina Rasch
- Producer
- Max Gordon
- Orchestrations
- devised by Jerome Kern
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
In fact, the opening-night audience was “so eager” for “excitement” that it “went wild over what amounted to an old-fashioned ‘off-to-Buffalo’ routine for Eddie Foy Jr., and Doris Carson. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 179
- Jerome Kern provided one of his best scores (including "The Night Was Made for Love," "Try to Forget," and "She Didn't Say Yes"). Book and lyrics were by Otto Harbach. The leads in this Brussels operetta were played by Georges Metaxa, Odette Myrtil, Bettina Hall, and Eddie Foy, Jr. It ran for 395 performances. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 56
- When The Cat and the Fiddle closed in mid-1932, his theatre, like so many elsewhere in the theatre district, was converted to a movie house. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 57
- 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. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 241
- Kern created two successful musicals with Harbach, the unfortunately overlooked The Cat and the Fiddle (1931) and Roberta (1933), the latter best known in its greatly altered 1935 film version. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 68
- The Cat and the Fiddle, a 1931 hit with lyrics by Otto Harbach and music by Kern, had explored the tensions and eventual accommodation of classical and popular music in a European setting. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 126
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 Cat And The Fiddle at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.