Productions4 on Broadway
| 1921 | Manhattan Opera House Original. May 19, 1921 · predates this show | 5 performances |
| 1928 | Lyric Theatre Revival. March 13, 1928 · William Anthony McGuire, Richard Boleslawsky | 318 performances |
| 1968 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival. June 25, 1968 · Jacques Rosner | 9 performances |
| 1984 | Broadway Theatre Revival. November 11, 1984 · Tom O'Horgan | 9 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. 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 literature28 passages
Friml’s next Broadway success, The Three Musketeers (3/13/28; 319 performances), Friml worked in familiar territory, musicalizing a classic European work as he had done with The Vagabond King, based on Justin Huntley McCarthy’s novel, If I Were King. Dennis King repeated his prior successes in Friml shows. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p198
The great showman FLORENZ ZIEGFELD brought his musicalization of The Three Musketeers into the Lyric on March 13, 1928. Rudolph Friml again delighted audiences with such songs as “Gascony,” “March of the Musketeers,” “My Sword,” “One Kiss,” and “Your Eyes.” book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p346
These included some of the greatest hits of the 1920s: Sally, Kid Boots, Rio Rita, The Three Musketeers, Whoopee, and his masterwork, Show Boat. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p599
The Three Musketeers was Ziegfeld’s second production in 1928. Rudolf Friml, P. G. Wodehouse, and Clifford Grey supplied the hit score, which contained such great songs as “Ma Belle,” “March of the Musketeers,” “One Kiss,” and “Gascony.” The show was Friml’s last great achievement. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p603
she became a superstar in two of the greatest operettas, The Desert Song and Rudolf Friml’s The Three Musketeers (1928). book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p87
The Three Musketeers took place in France, Naughty Marietta had dibs on New Orleans, The Merry Widow waltzed in Paris, and The Fortune Teller used the Czardas sounds of Hungary as its background. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p284
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