The run closed June 8, 1935
- Opened
- September 22, 1934
- Closed
- June 8, 1935
- Performances
- 298
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Center Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 48th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Great Waltz 1 more that season
| 1935 | Center Theatre Return-Engagement · Albertina Rasch | 49 perf. |
Who was in it131 named
Edgar Allan
Virginia Allen
Albert Amato
Ruby Asquith
Marion Bancroft
Alice Banks
Bruce Barclay
Beulah Blake
Freeman Bloodgood
Charles Brokaw
Jessie Busley
Roger Carr
Carol Chandler
Harold Christensen
Lew Christensen
Florence Chumbecos
Ruth Clayton
Clarice Cole
Neil Collins
Martha Coy
John Crayton
Tom Curley
Glenn Darwin
Eugene Deprussing
Nina Dean
Roderick Deane
Martin Dennis
Jack Donaldson
Shirley Dorman
Bert Doughty
William Douglas
Alita Duncan
Viola Einarsen
Vivian Fay
Robert C Fischer
Frank Floyd
Michael J Forbes
Dorothy Forsyth
Mary Francis
John Fredrick
Ralph Glover
Herbert Goff
George Gordon
Vera Gorska
Sally Hadley
June Hauger
Gladys Haverty
Frances Hayes
Patti Heaton
Ingar Hill
Fay Hope
Thekla Horn
Florence Hurst
Rosalynd Hutner
Aphie James
Al Kacher
Adrienne Kann
David King
Leslie Kingdon
Jeane Kroll
Richard Lambart
Donald Lee
Frank Leonard
Sharon Lewis
Richie Ling
Constance Macdonald
Ralph Magelssen
Philip Man
Claire Manners
Mary Manners
Ambrose Manning
Thalia Mara
Thalia Marra
Emily Marsh
Sue Mason
Ruth Mather
Josephine Mckendrick
Florence Miller
Frank Moffa
Jerry Moore
Kathryn Mullowney
May Muth
Dennis Noble
Rosalie Norman
Joseph Olney
Nona Otero
Jane Overton
Zoel Parenteau
Billie Partridge
Virginia Peck
Nora Puntin
Rabana
Marie Rio
Mary Rodes
Charles Romano
Jimmy Ryan
Dave Sachs
Helen Sada
Tanya Sanina
Marjorie Shaw
Morrie Siegel
Madgieo Smylle
Geraldine Spencer
Eleanora Standish
Claire Stone
Wiora Stoney
Doris Swanstrom
Virda Twiford
Theo van Tassell
Nina Verde
Harold Voeth
Diana Walker
Sandra Walters
Solly Ward
Virginia Watkins
Gilbert White
Mary Wilkinson
Castle Williams
Roger P Williams
Marion Winchester
Frances Wise
10 of these 131 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 121 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
- Hassard Short
- Producer
- Max Gordon
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
More lavishly staged than any of the above was Harold Fielding’s production Phil the Fluter , loosely based on the life of the Irish composer Percy French, but the mix of French’s compositions and new numbers by David Heneker was unsatisfying, and a starry cast couldn’t redeem it. West End Broadway the Golden Age of the American Musical In London Adrian Wright, p. 341
- One of the truly mammoth undertakings of the mid-Thirties, The Great Waltz opened at the 3,822-seat Center Theatre (then in Rockefeller Center one block south of the Radio City Music Hall) with 23 actors, 77 singers, 33 ballet dancers, 53 musicians, 90 backstage workers, and a wardrobe of over 500 costumes. The product… Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 93
- Though critics were divided, The Great Waltz had a respectable run (at a $3.30 top), and reopened for an additional 49 performances in August 1935. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 94
- the musical The Great Waltz (9/22/34; 297 performances) Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 298
- Johann Strauss’ pere and fils had an immense success with the favorite The Great Waltz in 1934. Their success was so great that they returned to Broadway, along with Oscar Straus (no relation) in the 1937 musical Three Waltzes. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 175
- The Great Waltz (1934) featured Strauss and his father, also a composer, as characters and also included their music. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 370
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 Great Waltz at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.