Song of Norway
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Edwin Lester's production of "Song of Norway", a new operetta based on the life and music by Edvard Grieg, or simply Song of Norway, credited to members of the original New York cast, is an album containing the original studio cast recording of the 1944 Broadway musical Song of Norway. It was released by Decca Records in 1945.
- Opened
- 1944
- Performances
- 860
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1944 | Imperial Theatre Original. August 21, 1944 · Edwin Lester, Charles K. Freeman | 860 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 3 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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33 passages naming Song of Norway, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Balanchine, George Babes in Arms Boys from Syracuse, The Cabin in the Sky I Married an Angel Louisiana Purchase Merry Widow, The On Your Toes Song of Norway Where’s Charley? Ziegfeld Follies book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p387
While Song of Norway (1944) was a long-running hit that utilized the music of Edvard Grieg in order to tell his story, a popular musical biography of Tchaikovsky was not to be. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p173
The operetta Song of Norway moved from the Imperial in 1946, and the propaganda play A Flag Is Born transferred from the Music Box. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p208
Fritz Kreisler’s romantic tunes were the basis of Rhapsody, produced in the same year as The Song of Norway: 1944. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p175
Their biggest hits, Song of Norway (1944—based on the works of Edvard Grieg) and Kismet, also began life on the West Coast and contained the standards “Strange Music,” “Freddie and His Fiddle,” “Stranger in Paradise,” and “Baubles, Bangles and Beads.” book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p176
His brilliant work graced such productions as Babes in Arms, | Married an Angel, The Boys from Syracuse, Song of Norway, and Where's Charley. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p254
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