Productions1 on Broadway
| 1945 | Winter Garden Theatre Original. July 18, 1945 · Hassard Short | 165 performances |
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In the summer of 1945, an operetta called Marinka opened at the Winter Garden and proved to be the last legitimate show to play there for several years. Once again, the theatre reverted to a movie house. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p64
Marion’s only “serious” musical was the operetta Marinka (1945), which sugar-coated the mysterious Mayerling affair. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p612
Marinka (165) sounded as if it might be an old operetta, and had music by Emmerich Kalman to confirm it. book:west-end-broadway-the-golden-age-of-the-american-musical-adrian-wright-boydell-b#p44
Emmerich Kálmán later used these tragic events as the subject of a Broadway musical, Marinka. But, in his version, instead of being found dead at their hunting lodge, the star-crossed lovers emigrate to America and settle down on a farm in Pennsylvania. book:broadway-babies-say-goodnight-musicals-then-and-now-mark-steyn#p163
nor an operetticized version of the Mayerling story manufactured for Broadway under the girlie title of Marinka, nor an awkward Oklahoma!-clone piece of cowboyland romance called Arizona Lady left much of a mark. book:the-musical-a-concise-history-second-edition-ga-nzl-kurt-findlay-jamie-2-2022010#p229
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