Productions3 on Broadway
| 1926 | Casino Theatre Original. November 30, 1926 · Arthur Hurley | 471 performances |
| 1946 | City Center Revival. January 8, 1946 · Sterling Halloway | 45 performances |
| 1973 | Uris Theatre Revival. September 5, 1973 · Henry Butler | 15 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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In the literature47 passages
Possibly the decade’s most enduring operetta, The Desert Song marked Sigmund Romberg’s first association with librettists-lyricists Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II (Romberg and Hammerstein would do four other musicals together). book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p63
Celebrated for his lush scores for operettas in exotic locales (The Desert Song, The New Moon), Sigmund Romberg joined with lyricist Dorothy Fields to recapture the vintage Currier and Ives charms found up in New York’s Central Park in the 1870s. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p126
This was still another variation on the outlaw-in-disguise theme of such previous offerings as Naughty Marietta and The Desert Song. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p79
Robert Halliday, who played the father of a girl whom Jamie jilted in Ireland, was the hero in two classic musicals by Sigmund Romberg in the 1920s. He created the role of the Red Shadow in the original 1926 production of The Desert Song (and introduced “One Alone,” “The Riff Song,” and the title song), book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p242
In September 1973 the Uris presented a revival of the operetta The Desert Song, but its 1920s appeal was lost on 1970s audiences. It closed after 15 performances. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p340
A revival of Desert Song opened in late 1973 and lasted only 15 performances. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p215
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