The run closed May 28, 1910
- Opened
- September 13, 1909
- Closed
- May 28, 1910
- Performances
- 296
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lyric Theatre
Of the 1,071 productions we hold that opened in the 1900s and record a performance count, this is the 17th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Other stagings of The Chocolate Soldier 7 more that season
| 1910 | Circle Theatre Revival | 8 perf. |
| 1910 | Lyric Theatre Transfer | |
| 1921 | Century Theatre Revival | 83 perf. |
| 1930 | Jolsons 59th Street Theatre Revival · Milton Aborn | 25 perf. |
| 1931 | Erlangers Theatre Revival · Milton Aborn | 16 perf. |
| 1934 | St James Theatre Revival · Alonzo Price | 13 perf. |
| 1947 | New Century Theatre Revival · Felix Brentano | 69 perf. |
Who was in it10 named
Edith Bradford
Jack E Gardner
Henry Norman
George C Ogle
Lillian Poli
George Tallman
4 of these 10 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 6 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.
Characters7 roles recorded
Herr Werner Bumerli, a Swiss mercenary
Grete Holm Nadina Popoff, a Bulgarian girl
Karl Streitmann Alexius, a Bulgarian soldier, loved by Nadina
Louise Kartousch Mascha
Frl. Schütz Aurelia
Max Pallenberg Popoff
Herr Albin Massakroff
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Stanislaus Stange
- Choreographer
- Al Holbrook
- Producer
- Fred C. Whitney
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.
Recordings 1 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against The Chocolate Soldier, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
- Other Broadway productions of The Chocolate Soldier were offered in 1921, 1930, 1931, 1934, and 1947 (the last in a revised version by Guy Bolton). Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 28
- 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 Chocolate Soldier, a musical version of Shaw's play Arms and the Man, proved to be a huge hit in 1909. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 21
- Lucinda Ballard won in the same category for her work on Happy Birthday, Another Part of the Forest, Street Scene, John Loves Mary, and The Chocolate Soldier. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 553
- Chocolate Soldier, The, 531 Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 625
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.
- Which of the 1 recordings of The Chocolate Soldier document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.