Productions8 on Broadway
| 1909 | Lyric Theatre Original. September 13, 1909 · Stanislaus Stange | 296 performances |
| 1910 | Circle Theatre Revival. October 3, 1910 | 8 performances |
| 1910 | Lyric Theatre Transfer. | |
| 1921 | Century Theatre Revival. December 12, 1921 | 83 performances |
| 1930 | Jolsons 59th Street Theatre Revival. January 27, 1930 · Milton Aborn | 25 performances |
| 1931 | Erlangers Theatre Revival. September 21, 1931 · Milton Aborn | 16 performances |
| 1934 | St James Theatre Revival. May 2, 1934 · Alonzo Price | 13 performances |
| 1947 | New Century Theatre Revival. March 12, 1947 · Felix Brentano | 69 performances |
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Recordings 1 album held
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In the literature29 passages
Other Broadway productions of The Chocolate Soldier were offered in 1921, 1930, 1931, 1934, and 1947 (the last in a revised version by Guy Bolton). book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p28
Among the most popular of these were Oscar Straus’s A Waltz Dream, Leo Fall’s The Dollar Princess, Straus’s The Chocolate Soldier, Heinrich Reinhardt’s The Spring Maid, Johann Strauss’s The Merry Countess (Die Fiedermaus), Lehar’s The Count of Luxembourg, Emmerich Kalman’s Sari, and Edmund Eysler’s The Blue Paradise (w… book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p39
The Chocolate Soldier, a musical version of Shaw's play Arms and the Man, proved to be a huge hit in 1909. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p21
Lucinda Ballard won in the same category for her work on Happy Birthday, Another Part of the Forest, Street Scene, John Loves Mary, and The Chocolate Soldier. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p553
Chocolate Soldier, The, 531 book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p625
sources even disagree about the year and city of his birth, and the most reliable fact about his early years is that his father was the famous singer Edmund Loewe, who debuted as Prince Danilo in the Berlin production of Lehár’s The Merry Widow and performed the lead in Oscar Straus’s first and only Shaw adaptation, Th… book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p312
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