Productions3 on Broadway
| 1898 | Wallack’s Theatre Original. September 26, 1898 · Julian Mitchell | 40 performances |
| 1919 | Theatre Republic Revival. February 27, 1919 | 68 performances |
| 1929 | Jolsons 59th Street Theatre Revival. November 4, 1929 · Milton Aborn | 16 performances |
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Boley, May Fortune Teller, The, 6 book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p353
The Fortune Teller (1898), and The Singing Girl (1899) all featured roles tailored for soprano Alice Nielsen. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p189
Among the most successful American works of the time were Reginald De Koven’s Robin Hood (1891) and Victor Herbert’s The Fortune Teller (1898). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p297
Their more memorable creations, however, premiered by other companies, appeared in the following decade; and they include Robin I load ( 1891 ), El Capitan (1896), and The Fortune Teller(1 898). book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p141
Fortune Teller proved enormously successful though it played only forty performances in New York. It had premiered in Toronto, then came to New York, where it played five weeks at Wallack's Theater. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p148
Victor Herbert (1859–1924), who also wrote for the Bostonians (and for other English opera companies), was by far the most successful and skilled American comic opera composer of the late nineteenth century. Most of his best known works – characterised by dramatic and memorable melodies and skilful orchestrations – are… book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p46
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