The Eternal Road
Shows · The Eternal Road
The Eternal Road took place in an unidentified country in Europe during a nonspecific era of perhaps the seventeenth century. But clearly the work was designed to comment on the current political scene in Germany, and as such it resonated with the theatergoers of 1937, who supported the production for almost five months.
- Opened
- 1937
- Performances
- 153
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Early
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1937 | Manhattan Opera House Original. January 7, 1937 · Max Reinhardt | 153 performances |
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Recordings 1 album held
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3 passages naming The Eternal Road, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Both drew musically on their Jewish heritage in such large-scale works as Weill’s Biblical epic, The Eternal Road (1937), and Bernstein’s Third Symphony (‘Kaddish’), book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p252
Smith’s use of “musical comedy” as his portmanteau term for everything from revue to operetta; nowadays, writers prefer the more neutral “musical” to avoid favoring, say, Rodgers and Hart over Stephen Sondheim. Smith makes a readable guide, and he seems to have seen everything that played in his lifetime. However, his… book:anything-goes-a-history-of-american-musical-theatre-ethan-mordden#p357
A corporal in the U.S. Army, Barclift’s earliest dancing credits included The Eternal Road (1937), Right This Way (1938) and Kurt Weill’s Lady in the Dark (1941); he later choreographed Irving Berlin’s This is the Army (1942) and the Orson Welles–Cole Porter extravaganza Around the World (1946). book:the-letters-of-cole-porter-cole-porter-editor-cliff-eisen-editor-dominic-mchugh-#p181
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