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Version 1

Balalaika (1936-12-Adelphi Theatre-London)

Type de série: Original
Théâtre: Adelphi Theatre (Londres - Angleterre)
Durée :
Nombre : 569 représentations
Première Preview : Inconnu
Première : Tuesday 22 December 1936
Dernière : Inconnu
Mise en scène : Leontine Sagan •
Chorégraphie : Joan Davis •
Producteur :
Avec : Eric Marshall (Colonel Balakirev), Dorothy Seacombe (Mrs Morrison), Bennett O’Loughlan (Randall P. Morrison), Roger Treville (Peter Karagin), Muriel Angelus (Lydia Marakova), Jerrold Robertshaw (Prince Karagin), Arthur Hardy (Marakov), Clifford Mollinson (Nicki), Betty Warren (Masha)
Commentaires : This is a revised version of the 1933 play “The Great Hussar”. With gipsy songs and dances, a major ballet performance, dramatic revolution scenes, and Cossack dancing it was a great critical and popular success.
An MGM film version was made in 1939 starring Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey using a new score made up of songs by Sigmund Romberg. Only one song, “At the Balalaika” remained from the original stage show.

London Run: Adelphi Theatre 22/12/1936 - Transferred to His Majesty's 6/2/1937 - Transferred to Adelphi 19/2/1938.

Version 2

Balalaika (1937-02-His Majesty's Theatre-London)

Type de série: Original
Théâtre: Her Majesty's Theatre (Londres - Angleterre)
Durée :
Nombre : 569 représentations
Première Preview : Inconnu
Première : Tuesday 22 December 1936
Dernière : Inconnu
Mise en scène : Leontine Sagan •
Chorégraphie : Joan Davis •
Producteur :
Avec : Eric Marshall (Colonel Balakirev), Dorothy Seacombe (Mrs Morrison), Bennett O’Loughlan (Randall P. Morrison), Roger Treville (Peter Karagin), Muriel Angelus (Lydia Marakova), Jerrold Robertshaw (Prince Karagin), Arthur Hardy (Marakov), Clifford Mollinson (Nicki), Betty Warren (Masha)
Commentaires : This is a revised version of the 1933 play “The Great Hussar”. With gipsy songs and dances, a major ballet performance, dramatic revolution scenes, and Cossack dancing it was a great critical and popular success.
An MGM film version was made in 1939 starring Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey using a new score made up of songs by Sigmund Romberg. Only one song, “At the Balalaika” remained from the original stage show.

London Run: Adelphi Theatre 22/12/1936 - Transferred to His Majesty's 6/2/1937 - Transferred to Adelphi 19/2/1938.

Version 3

Balalaika (1938-02-Adelphi Theatre-London)

Type de série: Original
Théâtre: Adelphi Theatre (Londres - Angleterre)
Durée :
Nombre : 569 représentations
Première Preview : Saturday 19 February 1938
Première : Saturday 19 February 1938
Dernière : Inconnu
Mise en scène : Leontine Sagan •
Chorégraphie : Joan Davis •
Producteur :
Avec : Eric Marshall (Colonel Balakirev), Dorothy Seacombe (Mrs Morrison), Bennett O’Loughlan (Randall P. Morrison), Roger Treville (Peter Karagin), Muriel Angelus (Lydia Marakova), Jerrold Robertshaw (Prince Karagin), Arthur Hardy (Marakov), Clifford Mollinson (Nicki), Betty Warren (Masha)
Commentaires : This is a revised version of the 1933 play “The Great Hussar”. With gipsy songs and dances, a major ballet performance, dramatic revolution scenes, and Cossack dancing it was a great critical and popular success.
An MGM film version was made in 1939 starring Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey using a new score made up of songs by Sigmund Romberg. Only one song, “At the Balalaika” remained from the original stage show.

London Run: Adelphi Theatre 22/12/1936 - Transferred to His Majesty's 6/2/1937 - Transferred to Adelphi 19/2/1938.

Version 4

Dancing Years (The) (1942-03-Adelphi Theatre-London)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: Adelphi Theatre (Londres - Angleterre)
Durée : 2 ans 3 mois 3 semaines
Nombre : 969 représentations
Première Preview : Inconnu
Première : Saturday 14 March 1942
Dernière : Saturday 08 July 1944
Mise en scène : Leontine Sagan •
Chorégraphie : Freddie Carpenter •
Producteur :
Avec : Ivor Novello (Rudi Kleber), Muriel Barron (Maria Zeigler), Roma Beaumont (Grete Schöne), Olive Gilbert (Cäcile Kurt), Peter Graves (Franzi), Victor Bogetti (Prince Charles Metternich)
Commentaires : This first revival followed its long provincial tour, after it was forced to leave London because of the outbreak of war. This time it ran for 969 performances, again forced to close in July 1944 because of increased bombing activity.
Earlier in 1944 Ivor Novello had to leave the show, having been sentenced to eight weeks imprisonment.

Version 5

Fledermaus (Die) (1945-03-Palace Theatre-London)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: Palace Theatre (Londres - Angleterre)
Durée :
Nombre : 412 représentations
Première Preview : Thursday 08 March 1945
Première : Thursday 08 March 1945
Dernière : Inconnu
Mise en scène : Bernard Delfont • Leontine Sagan •
Chorégraphie : Wendy Toye •
Producteur :
Avec : Cyril Ritchard (Baron von Eisenstein), Ruth Naylor (Rosalinda), Peter Graves (Orlofsky), Bernard Clifton (Dr Falke), James Etherington (Alfred), Jay Laurier (Frosch)
Commentaires : On April 5th 1874 Vienna’s Theater an der Wien saw the premiere of “Die Fledermaus” with music by Johann Strauss II. It was based on a French play by Meilhac & Halevy and set to a German libretto by Karl Haffner & Richard Genee. It was soon recognised as the greatest of all Viennese operettas to date and it remains the golden standard by which all other operettas are measured even today.
By the end of that same year it had been performed in New York, and it first appeared in London at the Alhambra on December 18th 1876 in a rather heavily adapted version. In the early years of the 20th Century it began to appear in the repertoire of the world’s great opera houses, and was first performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1931.
In 1942 the famous German director, Max Reinhardt, staged a revival on Broadway under the title “Rosalinda”, and this was a triumph, running for 502 performances. This version, with musical arrangements by Erich Korngold was adapted for London by Austin Melford and Rudolf Bemauer - and was a great success, running for a year, closing on March 2nd 1946.

Version 6

Fledermaus (Die) (1946-08-Princes Theatre-London)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: Shaftesbury Theatre (Londres - Angleterre)
Durée :
Nombre :
Première Preview : Thursday 08 August 1946
Première : Thursday 08 August 1946
Dernière : Inconnu
Mise en scène : Bernard Delfont • Leontine Sagan •
Chorégraphie : Wendy Toye •
Producteur :
Commentaires longs: This was the same production which had ended its year long run at the Palace just five months earlier and had been on a highly successful provincial tour ever since. It was back in London for a six week season before returning to its tour. There had been a number of cast changes since the original production, and the orchestra was now conducted by Michael Collins and not Richard Tauber.