Roberta
Shows · Roberta
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.
- Opened
- 1933
- Performances
- 295
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Early
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1933 | New Amsterdam Theatre Original. November 18, 1933 · Hassard Short | 295 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 4 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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35 passages naming Roberta, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Laura Hunt and Waldo Lydecker (Vera Caspary’s mystery novel Laura ), who saw Roberta, book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p887
His next Broadway show was a success with critics and audiences. The Cat and the Fiddle (10/15/31; 395 performances) paired Harbach with Jerome Kern. The fine score boasted such standards as “Try to Forget,” “She Didn’t Say Yes,” and “The Night Was Made for Love.” The following year saw Kern and Harbach’s Roberta (11/1… book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p241
Kern’s Roberta, with lyrics by Otto Harbach, and yet another from the first Fred and Ginger eight, also deserves consideration as one of the finest contemporary film adaptations of a staged musical comedy (with significant touches of operetta). book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p199
Hassard Short, director of production, lighting, and musical sequences, who had designed illustrious shows for two decades, including The Band Wagon, Roberta, and Jubilee. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p651
He continued to write shows that fused different approaches to musical theater during the early 1930s, such as The Cat and the Fiddle (1931), Music in the Air (1932), and Roberta (1933). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p212
With less than minimal competition, drastically cut-rate tickets, and the song hit “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,’””» ROBERTA managed a fair run. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p90
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