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The Wild Rose

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The Wild Rose is a musical in two acts with both book and lyrics co-authored by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, and music by Rudolf Friml. It should not be confused with the earlier 1902 musical, The Wild Rose, by Ludwig Engländer, Harry B.

Opened
1926
Performances
61
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Rudolf FrimlLyrics: Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein IIBook: Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II

Productions2 on Broadway

1902 Knickerbocker Theatre Original. May 5, 1902 · Adolph Neuberger · predates this show 136 performances
1926 Martin Beck Theatre Revival. October 20, 1926 · William J. Wilson 61 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.

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In the literature5 passages

Friml’s next outing, The Wild Rose (10/20/26; 61 performances), was a failure. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p233

Rose-Marie (1924) and The Wild Rose (1926) with Rudolf Friml and Stothart; Song of the Flame (1925) with George Gershwin and Stothart; and the still-revived The Desert Song (1926) with Sigmund Romberg. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p49

Choreographer and director who honed his flair for presenting the female form and using human bodies to create geometric designs in shows such as The Wild Rose (1926) and A Connecticut Yankee (1927) book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p66

comedies: Rose-Marie (1924) and The Wild Rose (1926) book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-to-sondheim-and-lloyd-web#p50

Sally (Warner Archive), though greatly changed from what Ziegfeld produced on Broadway, does star Marilyn Miller, and the disc includes Technicolor footage of “Wild Rose”—a real taste of what Miller was like on stage. book:anything-goes-a-history-of-american-musical-theatre-ethan-mordden#p397

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