The Chocolate Soldier

Opera - Revival

Jolson's 59th Street Theatre

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  • Opening Date: January 27, 1930
  • Closing Date: February 15, 1930
  • Previews: 0
  • Performances: 25

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

Frances Baviello Louka
Roy Cropper Major Alexius Spiridoff
John Dunsmuir Col. Kasimer Popoff
William C. Gordon Captain Massakroff
Wee Griffin Stephen
Vivian Hart Mascha
Alice MacKenzie Nadina Popoff
Charles Purcell Lieutenant Bumerli
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Opening Night Production Credits

  Rudolph Bernauer Book
  Leopold Jacobson Book
  Oscar Strauss Music
  Milton Aborn Staging
  Jolson Theatre Musical Comedy Company Producer
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Shows That Opened That Season: 1929 - 1930

 
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