Shows · Roberta

Roberta

Opened 1933

295 performances

Musical, Early

Roberta — John Hanrahan Publishing Company, Inc., photograph by Alfredo Valente

An American football player inherits his aunt's fashionable Parisian dress salon and must navigate the world of high fashion while falling in love with his aunt's beautiful Russian assistant. Romantic rivalries, mistaken identities, and comic misunderstandings ensue as the athlete proves equally adept at winning hearts and touchdowns.

Music: Jerome Kern
Lyrics: Otto Harbach
Book: Otto Harbach

Productions1 on Broadway

1933

New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway Original, opened November 18, 1933, directed by Hassard Short

295 performances

Recordings 4 recordings

1952

Roberta Capitol Records FBF-334, released 1952

United States

1952

Roberta Capitol Records L-334, released 1952

United States

1952

Roberta Capitol Records DDN-334, released 1952

United States

1990

Jerome Kern’s Roberta CBS Special Products A 7030, released 1990

United States

Licensing 2 entries

US	Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark	available
UK	Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark	available

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.

Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 302

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