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The Chocolate Soldier

The Chocolate Soldier

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The Chocolate Soldier is an operetta composed in 1908 by Oscar Straus based on George Bernard Shaw's 1894 play, Arms and the Man. The German language libretto is by Rudolf Bernauer and Leopold Jacobson.

Opened
1909
Performances
296
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Oscar StrausLyrics: Stanislaus StangeBook: Stanislaus Stange

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

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

Recordings 1 album held

Licensing not confirmed

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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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