Productions1 on Broadway
| 1937 | Manhattan Opera House Original. January 7, 1937 · Max Reinhardt | 153 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing not confirmed
| Rights | — We have not been able to confirm the publisher. |
Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.
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
Passages naming this show, found by keyword across 178 books. Where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.