The Chocolate Soldier
Opera - Revival
Erlanger's Theatre
Data not verified
- First Preview:
- Opening Date: September 21, 1931
- Closing Date: October 3, 1931
- Previews: 0
- Performances: 16
Music: Jay Blackton, Oscar Strauss
Book: Leopold Jacobson, Rudolph Bernauer
Libretto: Leopold Jacobson, Rudolph Bernauer
Synopsis
During the Serbio-Bulgarian War of 1885, a Bulgarian woman who is engaged to a war hero encounters a Serbian captain who is retreating from the war because he despises it. He teaches her to see beyond the romantic ideals of war in this operetta, adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
Opening Night Cast
| Ann Carey | Aurelia Popoff | |
| Roy Cropper | Major Alexius Spiridoff | |
| Hal Ford | Col. Kasimer Popoff | |
| Vivian Hart | Mascha | |
| Detmar Poppen | Captain Massakroff | |
| Charles Purcell | Lieutenant Bumerli | |
| Vivienne Segal | Nadina Popoff |
Opening Night Production Credits
| Hugh Stanislaus Stange | American Book | |
| Oscar Strauss | Music | |
| Hugh Stanislaus Stange | American Lyrics | |
| Milton Aborn | Staging | |
| Brooks | Costume Design | |
| Charles Baatz | Art Direction |
