The Firefly, 1912

The run closed March 15, 1913

Opened

December 2, 1912

Closed

March 15, 1913

Performances

120

Previews

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Theatre

Lyric Theatre

Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 227th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Firefly 2 more that season

Who was in it57 named

Edward Agnini
Bella Anderson
Edwin Archer
Katherine Ardavini
Ernest Band
Bessie Bourne
Russell Brown
William Brown
George Bruger
Irene Cassini
Neva Cassini
Alvina Dare
Vera de Rosa
Louie Ducey
Edith Bonnett
Frank Farrell
Viola Garrick
Eileen Gerald
Marie Granville
Robert Halstead
Mona Harmon
Katherine Hauser
James Johnson
Marion Lee
Vera Ling
Louie Linton
Marie Melvin
Hulda Morton
Grace Noble
Ruby Norton
Robert Odierno
Florence Reed
Alice Rose
Irene Samson
Max Silver
Stanley Sobelson
Alex Sparks
Arthur Spencer
William Stanz
Virginia Steinhardt
Katherine Stewart
Bessie Stivers
Bernard Tieman
Mattie Vance
Henry Vogel
Violet von Nichols
Dorothy Walmer
Florence Williams
George Williams
Amelia Wurtz

7 of these 57 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 50 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

Fred Latham

Choreographer

Signor Albertieri, Sammy Lee

Producer

Arthur Hammerstein

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

Theatre: Erlanger’s Theatre Opening Date: November 30, 1931; Closing Date: December 5, 1931 Performances: 8 The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 192

• Another operetta hit was Rudolf Friml's The Firefly (1912). At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 21
• Through music publisher Max Dreyfus, Hammerstein found Friml and commissioned him to write the score with librettist Orro Harbach. The score contained three Friml standards, ““Giannina Mia,” “Love Is Like a Firefly,” and “Sympathy.” Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 196
• Their first show together turned Hauerbach’s fortunes around. The Firefly (12/2/12; 120 performances) was all the more remarkable for being Friml’s first Broadway score and producer Arthur Hammerstein’s first producing venture. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 239
• Musicals included RUDOLF FRIML’s The Firefly (12/2/12; 120 performances) and High Jinks (12/10/13; 213 performances). The Firefly had lyrics by Orro HARBACH and featured the Friml favorite “Giannina Mia.” Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 346
• Friml’s best-remembered musicals are his spectacular operettas of the 1920s: Rose Marie (1924), The Vagabond King (1925), and The Three Musketeers (1928). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 157

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 Firefly at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.