Productions2 on Broadway
| 1907 | West End Theatre Original. December 16, 1907 · predates this show | 8 performances |
| 1931 | Globe Theatre Revival. October 15, 1931 · José Ruben | 395 performances |
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In the literature30 passages
Jerome Kern provided one of his best scores (including "The Night Was Made for Love," "Try to Forget," and "She Didn't Say Yes"). Book and lyrics were by Otto Harbach. The leads in this Brussels operetta were played by Georges Metaxa, Odette Myrtil, Bettina Hall, and Eddie Foy, Jr. It ran for 395 performances. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p56
When The Cat and the Fiddle closed in mid-1932, his theatre, like so many elsewhere in the theatre district, was converted to a movie house. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p57
His next Broadway show was a success with critics and audiences. The Cat and the Fiddle (10/15/31; 395 performances) paired Harbach with Jerome Kern. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p241
Kern created two successful musicals with Harbach, the unfortunately overlooked The Cat and the Fiddle (1931) and Roberta (1933), the latter best known in its greatly altered 1935 film version. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p68
The Cat and the Fiddle, a 1931 hit with lyrics by Otto Harbach and music by Kern, had explored the tensions and eventual accommodation of classical and popular music in a European setting. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p126
Of this quartet, Kern was probably the most frequently adapted with reasonable success. In fact, a number of films retained a significant amount of his music, including The Cat and the Fiddle and Music in the Air in 1934 and Sweet Adeline and Roberta in 1935. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p239
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