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Countess Maritza

Shows · Countess Maritza

Gräfin Mariza is an operetta in three acts composed by Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán, with a German libretto by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald. It premiered in Vienna on 28 February 1924 at the Theater an der Wien.

Opened
1926
Performances
321
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Emmerich KalmanLyrics: Harry B. SmithBook: Harry B. Smith

Productions3 on Broadway

1926 Shubert Theatre Original. September 18, 1926 · J. C. Huffman 321 performances
1928 Century Theatre Revival. April 9, 1928 · J. C. Huffman 16 performances
1938 Palace Theatre Transfer. July 6, 1938

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 2 entries

UK Josef Weinberger Ltd not stated by this source
UK Josef Weinberger Ltd not stated by this source

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In the literature4 passages

Countess Maritza (1926), an operetta by Emmerich Kalman, with the popular song "Play Gypsies—Dance Gypsies," was an enormous success; book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p100

Smith’s greatest musical successes—Robin Hood, The Spring Maid, Sweethearts, Watch Your Step, Countess Maritza, The Girl from Utah, and The Rich Mr. Hoggenheimer—were written in collaboration with such composers as Ludwig Englander, Reginald De Koven, Victor Herbert, John Philip Sousa, Robert Hood Bowers, Gus Edwards,… book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p521

But, with few exceptions-Countess Maritza (Kalman, 1926); Bitter Sweet (Noel Coward, 1929)-foreign pieces were no longer as popular with American audiences as they had been before the war. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p212

Two musical comedies of great durability opened during the year: “The Desert Song” with Robert Halliday and Vivienne Segal, and “Countess Maritza” book:a-pictorial-history-of-the-american-theatre-1860-1985-blum#p225

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