The run closed December 4, 1926
- Opened
- September 21, 1925
- Closed
- December 4, 1926
- Performances
- 511
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Casino Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 23rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Vagabond King 1 more that season
| 1943 | Shubert Theatre Revival · George Ermoloff | 56 perf. |
Who was in it82 named
Fern Adrian
Marion Alta
Grace Angelau
Ann Austin
Francis Baldwin
E H Barlab
Joseph Batistich
Ruth Bieber
Triny Broekman
Caroline Cantlon
Jane Carroll
Charles Carver
Betty Chapin
Earl Clayton
Alfred Cortez
Tamm Cortez
Florence Courtney
Robert Craik
Herbert Crane
Walter Cross
Leon Cunningham
Madeleine Dare
Fanille Davies
Muriel Dawn
Florence Debarde
Herbert Delmore
Helen Ely
Ross Ericksen
Michael Evans
Cynthia Farr
Dorothy Fitzgibbon
Dolores Frank
Miriam Franken
Helen Grenelle
Margaret Grove
Catherine Hayes
Mimi Hayes
Walter Higgins
Arthur P Hoyt
Therese Hyle
Arthur Kellar
Virginia Kelley
Vivian Kelley
Margaret la Motte
Lucy Lawlor
Melba Lee
Bryan Lycan
Glenn Macauley
Beatrice Marsh
H H Mccullum
John Mealey
Estelle Mercier
Joseph Miller
Margot Miller
George Mortimer
Eona Murillo
Carlton Neville
Louis Olary
Nellie Paley
Ethel Rea
Kathryne Richmond
Marius Rogati
Edwin Rogers
Jack Rose
Muriel Seaman
Edward Sheldon
Merle Stevens
Evelyn Stockton
Sidonie Sutro
Olga Treskoff
Theola Vincent
Earl Waldo
Julian Winter
John York
Louise Joyce
E L Rogers
6 of these 82 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 76 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
- Max Figman
- Choreographer
- Julian Alfred
- Producer
- Russell Janney
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
- Just as The Vagabond King had offered Dennis King as the dashing Francois Villon singing Rudolf Friml songs in a tale of adventure and intrigue in the days of Louis XI, so The Three Musketeers offered King as the dashing Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 69
- Alfred, Julian Poppy Vagabond King, The Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 387
- Friml’s next Broadway show, The Vagabond King (10/21/25; 511 performances), proved almost as successful as Rose-Marie, with Friml returning to his European roots. The production, with lyrics by Brian Hooker, starred Dennis King and Carolyn Thomson. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 198
- Friml’s next show, High Jinks (1913), was also a smash hit, and the young composer was on his way. He hit his stride in 1924 with the magnificent Rose-Marie and followed that with another classic, The Vagabond King (1925) and, a few years later, another huge hit, The Three Musketeers (1928). Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 285
- The Vagabond King, another popular operetta with a score by Friml, premieres at the Casino Theater for a run of 511 performances. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 19
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 Vagabond King at all.
- No director named.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.