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The Eternal Road

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The Eternal Road took place in an unidentified country in Europe during a nonspecific era of perhaps the seventeenth century. But clearly the work was designed to comment on the current political scene in Germany, and as such it resonated with the theatergoers of 1937, who supported the production for almost five months.

Opened
1937
Performances
153
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Kurt WeillLyrics: Ludwig LewisohnBook: Franz Werfel

Productions1 on Broadway

1937 Manhattan Opera House Original. January 7, 1937 · Max Reinhardt 153 performances

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In the literature3 passages

Both drew musically on their Jewish heritage in such large-scale works as Weill’s Biblical epic, The Eternal Road (1937), and Bernstein’s Third Symphony (‘Kaddish’), book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p252

Smith’s use of “musical comedy” as his portmanteau term for everything from revue to operetta; nowadays, writers prefer the more neutral “musical” to avoid favoring, say, Rodgers and Hart over Stephen Sondheim. Smith makes a readable guide, and he seems to have seen everything that played in his lifetime. However, his… book:anything-goes-a-history-of-american-musical-theatre-ethan-mordden#p357

A corporal in the U.S. Army, Barclift’s earliest dancing credits included The Eternal Road (1937), Right This Way (1938) and Kurt Weill’s Lady in the Dark (1941); he later choreographed Irving Berlin’s This is the Army (1942) and the Orson Welles–Cole Porter extravaganza Around the World (1946). book:the-letters-of-cole-porter-cole-porter-editor-cliff-eisen-editor-dominic-mchugh-#p181

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