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Cafe Crown

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Cafe Crown is a three-act play by Hy Kraft that premiered on Broadway on January 23, 1942, at the Cort Theatre. The cast included Sam Jaffe and Morris Carnovsky.

Opened
1942
Performances
141
Type
Musical
Era
Early

Licensing 1 entry

US Concord Theatricals Dramatists Play Service available

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In the literature3 passages

Cafe Crown would be the first of three flop musicals which ended Hague’s Broadway career. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p200

He quickly rebounded two months later, in the musical Cafe Crown (starring—yet again—Sam Levene). This lasted two days, giving Alda ten performances in two different Broadway shows in two months. book:broadway-yearbook-2001-2002-a-relevant-and-irreverent-steven-suskin-kindle-2003-#p132

Broadway credits include Plain and Fancy, followed by Cafe Crown, Slapstick Tragedy, Show Me Where the Good Times Are, and Plaza Suite. book:theatre-world-2000-01-season-v-57-willis#p263

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