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Rosalie

Shows · Rosalie

4630. Rosalie [10 January 1928] musical comedy by William Anthony McGuire, Guy Bolton (bk), George Gershwin, Sigmund Romberg (mu), Ira Gershwin, P. G. Wodehouse (lyr) [New Amsterdam Thea; 335p]. The Lindbergh-like pilot Richard Faye (Oliver McLennan) from West Point flies across the Atlantic to the Kingdom of Romanza to be near the Princess Rosalie (Marilyn Miller) whom he loves.

Opened
1928
Performances
335
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: George Gershwin, Sigmund RombergLyrics: Ira Gershwin, P. G. WodehouseBook: William Anthony McGuire & Guy Bolton

Productions2 on Broadway

1917 Knickerbocker Theatre Revival. September 1, 1917 · predates this show
1928 New Amsterdam Theatre Original. January 10, 1928 · William Anthony McGuire 335 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.

Recordings 2 albums held

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In the literature27 passages

Marilyn Miller returned to the New Amsterdam in the new musical, Rosalie, with a score by George and Ira Gershwin, Sigmund Romberg, and P. G. Wodehouse. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p30

Rosalie was a Ziegfeld production where Romberg and P. G. Wodehouse wrote half the score, and George and Ira Gershwin contributed the other half. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p475

For worthy films with Porter’s music—prior to the 1953 adaptation of Kiss Me, Kate discussed in chapter 14—one would have to turn to the original film musicals Born to Dance (1936), Rosalie (1937), and Broadway Melody of 1940, and the modern-day biopic De-Lovely (2004), the latter chock full of stylistically updated Po… book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p239

She starred in several of his musical comedies, including Sally (1920), Sunny (1925), and Rosalie (1928). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p261

Ziegfeld also produced significant book musicals, including Rio Rita (1927, which opened his Ziegfeld Theater), the history-making Show Boat (1927), Rosalie (1928), The Three Musketeers (1928), Whoopee (1928), and Bitter Sweet (1929). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p423

'Take A Step With Me’—new lyric for “Rosalie” from THE SPRING CHICKEN [Circa March 1906]','You’re Here And I’m Here”—also used in THE MARRIAGE MARKET [September 22, 1913] book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p51

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