Theatre Register
Song of the Flame

Song of the Flame

Shows · Song of the Flame

5057. Song of the Flame [30 December 1925] operetta by Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II (bk, lyr), Herbert Stothart, George Gershwin (mu) [44th St Thea; 219p]. The White Russian aristocrat Aniuta (Tessa Kosta) has deep sympathies for the struggling peasants of Russia so, donning a red dress and getting the nickname of The Flame, she leads the people in revolt.

Opened
1925
Performances
219
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: George Gershwin, Herbert StothartLyrics: Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein IIBook: Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II

Productions1 on Broadway

1925 44th Street Theatre Original. December 30, 1925 · Frank Reicher 219 performances

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

Licensing not confirmed

Rights We have not been able to confirm the publisher.

Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.

In the literature8 passages

An unlikely success was Arthur Hammerstein’s operetta Song of the Flame (12/30/25; 214 performances), which had a strange grouping of song. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p193

Song of the Flame (1925) with George Gershwin and Stothart; and the still-revived The Desert Song (1926) with Sigmund Romberg. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p49

Gershwin was chosen for this Russian opus, which opened just two days after TIP-TOES [December 28, 1925]. The result was successful but pedestrian. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p95

“Song of the Flame” with Guy Robertson and Tessa Kosta and “Sky High” starring Willie Howard. book:a-pictorial-history-of-the-american-theatre-1860-1985-blum#p221

Song of the Flame (1925) with George Gershwin and Stothart; book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-to-sondheim-and-lloyd-web#p50

proved only that this was not Gershwin’s meétier, even if Rosalie did produce ‘How Long Has This Been Going On?’. Herbert Stothart with Song of the Flame (1925) book:the-best-musicals-from-show-boat-to-a-chorus-line-by-arthur-jackson-foreword-by-#p33

Passages naming this show, found by keyword across 178 books. Where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.