Productions1 on Broadway
| 1923 | Casino Theatre Original. February 7, 1923 · Oscar Eagle | 477 performances |
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Hammerstein would have his first big hit in collaboration with Stothart and VINCENT YOUMANS. The show, Wildflower (2/7/23; 477 performances), had a book by Hammerstein and Otto Harbach. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p233
Wildflower, an operetta that included the first orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett, opens at the Casino Theater. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p18
Arthur Hammerstein had met continued success teaming major composers with his house staff of Stothart, Harbach, and nephew Hammerstein for operettas (including WILDFLOWER [Youmans: February 7, 1923] and ROSE-MARIE [Friml: September 2, 1924]). book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p150
As in WILDFLOWER [February 7, 1923], Youmans provided two smash hit songs, ‘““Tea For Two” and “I Want To Be Happy.” A stylish Broadway revival (May 16, 1973) played 861 performances. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p170
Early success came via WILDFLOWER [February 7, 1923], a mild operetta with a difference: one highly syncopated song hit. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p178
Only a year after Oklahoma! had been greeted as a genre-changing event on Broadway, Song of Norway turned the clock back to the most conventional operetta, reaching even beyond the recent example of Romberg and Hammerstein II's Sunny River of 1941, the Rudolf Friml-composed The Blue Kitten of 1925, and even Vincent You… book:west-end-broadway-the-golden-age-of-the-american-musical-adrian-wright-boydell-b#p45
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