Shows · Cafe Crown
Cafe Crown is a three-act play by Hy Kraft that premiered on Broadway on January 23, 1942, at the Cort Theatre. The cast included Sam Jaffe and Morris Carnovsky.
- Opened
- 1942
- Performances
- 141
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Early
Productions2 on Broadway
| 1942 | Original Theatre unknown. January 23, 1942 | 141 performances |
| 1964 | Martin Beck Theatre Revival. April 17, 1964 · Jerome Eskow | 3 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
3 passages naming Cafe Crown, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Cafe Crown would be the first of three flop musicals which ended Hague’s Broadway career. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p200
He quickly rebounded two months later, in the musical Cafe Crown (starring—yet again—Sam Levene). This lasted two days, giving Alda ten performances in two different Broadway shows in two months. book:broadway-yearbook-2001-2002-a-relevant-and-irreverent-steven-suskin-kindle-2003-#p132
Broadway credits include Plain and Fancy, followed by Cafe Crown, Slapstick Tragedy, Show Me Where the Good Times Are, and Plaza Suite. book:theatre-world-2000-01-season-v-57-willis#p263
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