The run closed December 15, 1928
- Opened
- March 13, 1928
- Closed
- December 15, 1928
- Performances
- 318
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lyric Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 92nd 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 Three Musketeers 3 more that season
| 1921 | Manhattan Opera House Original | 5 perf. |
| 1968 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Jacques Rosner | 9 perf. |
| 1984 | Broadway Theatre Revival · Tom O'Horgan | 9 perf. |
Who was in it95 named
Pirkko Ahlquist
Virginia Beardsley
Yvonne Beaupre
Marye Bern
Jeanette Bradley
Harrison Brockbank
Eleanor Buffington
Edna Bunte
Robert D Burns
Katherine Cavelli
Margaret Clark
John Clarke
Nancy Corrigan
Dona Desne Curry
Audrey Davis
Helen Derby
Sylvia Derby
William Dillon
Marion Dodge
L Dumbadse
Douglass R Dumbrille
Ernest Ehler
Marguerite Eisele
Byrdeatta Evans
Rose Gale
Dorothy Greenley
Evelyn Groves
Emily Hadley
Sally Hadley
William Hagen
Pauline Hall
Libby Hanley
Vida Hanna
Catherine Hayes
Eve Hellesness
Stanley Howard
Ivan Ismailov
Norman Ives
Andy Jochim
Naomi Johnson
Wilma Kaye
Frances Kelly
William Kershaw
Charles Kirby
John Kline
Lydia Krushinsky
Julia Lane
Elaine Lank
Randolph Leyman
Eleanor Little
Glenn Macauley
Mary Macdonald
Lottie Marcy
Joan Marren
Marie Merrifield
G Moore
Ellen Moray
Ann Moss
Armundi Muzzi
Raymond O Brien
Lucille O Connor
Nona Otero
Ivy Palmer
Esther Peters
Nora Puntin
Louise Raymond
Elsie Reign
Lee Russell
Martin Sheppard
Robert Shields
Hilda Steiner
Miriam Stockton
Dorothy Sutton
Richard Thornton
Mildred Turner
Regina Tushinska
Margaret Valient
A van Mueller
Serge Vino
Lillian White
Gertrude Williams
Helen Withers
John Zak
12 of these 95 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 83 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
- William Anthony McGuire, Richard Boleslawsky
- Choreographer
- Albertina Rasch
- Producer
- Florenz Ziegfeld
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
- Friml’s next Broadway success, The Three Musketeers (3/13/28; 319 performances), Friml worked in familiar territory, musicalizing a classic European work as he had done with The Vagabond King, based on Justin Huntley McCarthy’s novel, If I Were King. Dennis King repeated his prior successes in Friml shows. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 198
- The great showman FLORENZ ZIEGFELD brought his musicalization of The Three Musketeers into the Lyric on March 13, 1928. Rudolph Friml again delighted audiences with such songs as “Gascony,” “March of the Musketeers,” “My Sword,” “One Kiss,” and “Your Eyes.” Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 346
- These included some of the greatest hits of the 1920s: Sally, Kid Boots, Rio Rita, The Three Musketeers, Whoopee, and his masterwork, Show Boat. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 599
- The Three Musketeers was Ziegfeld’s second production in 1928. Rudolf Friml, P. G. Wodehouse, and Clifford Grey supplied the hit score, which contained such great songs as “Ma Belle,” “March of the Musketeers,” “One Kiss,” and “Gascony.” The show was Friml’s last great achievement. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 603
- she became a superstar in two of the greatest operettas, The Desert Song and Rudolf Friml’s The Three Musketeers (1928). Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 87
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 Three Musketeers at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.