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The Red Mill

Shows · The Red Mill

The Red Mill is an operetta written by Victor Herbert, with a libretto by Henry Blossom. The farcical story concerns two American vaudevillians who wreak havoc at an inn in the Netherlands, interfering with two marriages; but all ends well.

Opened
1906
Performances
274
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Victor HerbertLyrics: Henry BlossomBook: Henry Blossom

Productions2 on Broadway

1906 Knickerbocker Theatre Original. September 24, 1906 · Fred Latham 274 performances
1945 Ziegfeld Theatre Revival. October 16, 1945 · Aida Broadbent 531 performances

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

Recordings 2 albums held

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
UK Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available

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In the literature30 passages

Mlle. Modiste inaugurated the partnership of composer Victor Herbert and librettist-lyricist Henry Blossom (they wrote eight scores together), and was their second in popularity to The Red Mill . book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p23

The Red Mill was closer to being a musical farce than the kind of operetta usually associated with Victor Herbert. There was ample compensation, however, in the fact that it achieved the longest run of any of the composer’s 41 book musicals produced during his lifetime. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p25

Prompted by the successful 1945 revival of Herbert’s The Red Mill starring comic Eddie Foy Jr. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p31

Mile. Modiste inaugurated the partnership of composer Victor Herbert and librettist-lyricist Henry Blossom (they wrote eight scores together), and was their second in popularity to The Red Mill. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p34

In 1945 the successful revival of Victor Herbert's The Red Mill moved here from the Ziegfeld Theatre and remained for a year. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p200

Among his best known shows are Babes in Toyland, The Red Mill, Naughty Marietta, Mlle. Modiste, Sweethearts, Eileen, and Orange Blossoms. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p258

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