The run closed December 11, 1926
- Opened
- October 20, 1926
- Closed
- December 11, 1926
- Performances
- 61
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 870th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Wild Rose 1 more that season
| 1902 | Knickerbocker Theatre Original · Adolph Neuberger | 136 perf. |
Who was in it84 named
Michael Afanasief
Ethel Allen
Cora Andrews
Waevolod Anisimo
Lawrence Arcuri
Anne Austin
May Boyle
Mildred Brower
Mae Burke
Bobby Campbell
Mary Carney
Benn Carswell
Frank Chapman
Rachel Chester
Ann Constance
Guerida Crawford
Jerome Daley
Jack Danziger
Claire Davis
Orlando Desalas
George Djimos
James Esipoff
Lotta Faning
George Fisher
Dorothy Forbes
John Fredrick
Charles Frye
Joseph Gary
Eugene Gnotow
Frances Grace
Bella Graf
Dan Harris
Mary Harrison
Elinore Heinemann
Gene Hitch
Bettye Holmes
Leon Kartavy
David Kladkoff
Wright Kramer
John Krivokosenke
Jeanne la Mont
Grace la Rue
George Magis
Natalie Manning
Zachary Marr
Mabel Martin
Doris May
Helene Mcglynn
Len Mence
Boris Milman
Michael Miroshnik
Madeline Montelin
Leo Nash
Richard Neely
Arthur Nulens
Sylvia Pagano
Mary Paige
Josephine Paretto
Pasquali Brothers
The Randalls
Polly Ray
Donald Robert
Joseph Rogers
Patricia Ross
Katherine Sacker
Anatole Safanov
Ruth Sato
Lydia Shields
Eve Sinclair
Clifford Stone
Neil Stone
Morris Tepper
Dink Trout
Marguerite Wyatt
Josef Zitrinik
Philemon Zivaly
8 of these 84 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
- William J. Wilson
- Choreographer
- Busby Berkeley
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
Though the show had music by Rudolf Friml and lyrics by Harbach and Hammerstein, it ran only 61 performances, falling short of their earlier hit Rose-Marie.
If British names were wholly responsible for the new production, many were impressive. The choreographer was Robert Helpmann, already a principal dancer at Sadler’s Wells Ballet and soon to become a noted actor and director, going on to stage Camelot at Drury Lane in the 1960s. West End Broadway the Golden Age of the American Musical In London Adrian Wright, p. 22
- Friml’s next outing, The Wild Rose (10/20/26; 61 performances), was a failure. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 233
- Rose-Marie (1924) and The Wild Rose (1926) with Rudolf Friml and Stothart; Song of the Flame (1925) with George Gershwin and Stothart; and the still-revived The Desert Song (1926) with Sigmund Romberg. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 49
- Choreographer and director who honed his flair for presenting the female form and using human bodies to create geometric designs in shows such as The Wild Rose (1926) and A Connecticut Yankee (1927) Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 66
- comedies: Rose-Marie (1924) and The Wild Rose (1926) Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat To Sondheim and Lloyd Web, p. 50
- Sally (Warner Archive), though greatly changed from what Ziegfeld produced on Broadway, does star Marilyn Miller, and the disc includes Technicolor footage of “Wild Rose”—a real taste of what Miller was like on stage. Anything Goes A History of American Musical Theatre Ethan Mordden, p. 397
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 Wild Rose at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.