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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