Shows · Roberta · New Amsterdam Theatre, 1933
Who was in it68 named
Barbara Adams
Ray Adams
Berenice Alaire
Leon Alton
Michael Alvarez
Dorothy Atkins
Bob Barrett
Elsie Behrens
Norma Butler
Sally Bynum
California Collegians
Phyllis Cameron
Barbara Child
Bobette Christine
Florence Chumbecos
Aida Conkey
Lola de Lille
Bert Doughty
Jack Douglas
Rene du Plessis
Jane Evans
Rose Gale
Bob Gray
Helen Gray
William Hain
Bunny Hallow
Ruth Hamilton
Vernon Hammer
Buddy Hertelle
Ed Jerome
Edna Johnson
Allan Jones
Lillian Lamonte
Dorothy Lane
Catherine Laughlin
Raymond E Middleton
Evelyn Monte
Herb Montei
John Muccio
Nayan Pearce
John Peters
Carole Renwick
Josephine Roberts
Marion Ross
Jimmy Ryan
Tania Sania
Stanislaw Sarmatoff
Ruth Shaw
Gretchen Sherman
Rosalie Trego
Mavis Walsh
Sandra Walters
Clara Waring
Virginia Whitmore
Barbara Williams
Lou Wood
Neil Wood
Nonie Dale
Peggy Fish
Arden Kendrick
Creative team
- Director
- Hassard Short
- Choreographer
- Jose Limon
- Orchestrations
- Robert Russell
Recordings
4 recordings of Roberta exist, but none were released while this run was on. See Roberta for all of them.
Around this production
Roberta is a musical from 1933 with music by Jerome Kern, and lyrics and book by Otto Harbach. The playful romantic comedy is based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller. It features the songs "Yesterdays", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "Let's Begin", "You're Devastating", "Something Had To Happen", "The Touch of Your Hand" and "I'll Be Hard to Handle".
Bob Hope tickles the ivories while Fay Templeton (seated) listens approvingly in Roberta, 1933.
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