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The Firefly, 1931

Shows · The Firefly · Erlangers Theatre, 1931

We hold no picture of this staging. This one is filed against The Firefly and could document any of its runs. Friml, Rudolf, 1879-1972 Harbach, Otto, 1873-1963
Revival BroadwayErlangers Theatre8 performances

The run closed December 5, 1931

Opened
November 30, 1931
Closed
December 5, 1931
Performances
8
Previews
Theatre
Erlangers Theatre

Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 1,030th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Firefly 2 more that season

1869 Niblos Garden Original 14 perf.
1912 Lyric Theatre Revival · Fred Latham 120 perf.

Who was in it38 named

Amy Atkinson
Alexander Black
Lauretta Brislin
Robert Capron
Anna Mae Colburn
Doris Colman
Muriel Day
Dhoris Delehante
Georgina Dieter
Mitzi Eder
Lloyd Ericsson
Elsie Frank
Bella Girard
Rudy Glaisek
Paul Graham
Lowell Handshaw
Mary Hennessy
Otis Holwerk
Hudson James
Maria Julian
George Koenig
Siegfried Langer
Deborah Ledger
August Loring
Ilse Marvenga
Winifred Mcclary
Leslie Mccloud
Vera Muller
Gertrude Rittenhouse
Olga Schumacher
Ethel Sheridan
Louis Templeman
Theo van Tassell
Mrs Herbert Waterous
Buck Williams
Eulalie Young

2 of these 38 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 36 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
Milton Aborn
Producer
The Civic Light Opera Company

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.

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.

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