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Births

4 January: SLIM GAILLARD = American jazz singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist = [died: 1991]
9 January: VIC MIZZY = American TV theme composer = [died: 2009]
14 January: MAXWELL DAVIS = American R&B saxophonist, arranger and record producer = [died: 1970]
15 January: ARTIE SHAPIRO = American jazz bassist = [died: 2003]
16 January: RUDOLF BENESH = British developer of the Benesh Movement Notation for dancing = [died: 1975]
22 January: HENRI DUTILLEUX = French composer = [died: 2013]
5 February: DANIEL SANTOS = Puerto Rican singer = [died: 1992]
8 February: JIMMY SKIDMORE = English jazz musician = [died: 1998]
22 February: PEDRO JUNCO = Cuban composer = [died: 1939]
29 February: DINAH SHORE = American singer = [died: 1994]
6 March: RED CALLENDER = American jazz musician = [died: 1992]
10 March: JAN HÅKAN ÅBERG = Swedish organist and composer = [died: 2012]
15 March: HARRY JAMES = American bandleader = [died: 1983]
17 March: RAY ELLINGTON = English singer and bandleader = [died: 1985]
11 April: ALBERTO GINASTERA = Argentinian composer = [died: 1983]
12 April: RUSSELL GARCIA = American film score composer = [died: 2011]
14 April: DENIS APIVOR = British composer = [died: 2004]
15 April: LEE VINCENT = American musician, orchestra leader, talent agent, radio sales manager = [died: 2007]
22 April: YEHUDI MENUHIN = American violinist and conductor = [died: 1999]
30 April: ROBERT SHAW = American conductor = [died: 1999]
6 May: ADRIANA CASELOTTI = American voice (and model) for Snow White = [died: 1997]
9 May: BERNARD ROSE = English organist and composer = [died: 1996]
10 May: MILTON BABBITT = American composer, music theorist, and teacher = [died: 2011]
17 May: PAUL QUINICHETTE = American jazz musician = [died: 1983]
21 May: LYDIA MENDOZA = American guitarist and singer = [died: 2007]
26 May: LOUIS THOMAS HARDIN (MOONDOG) = American singer, percussionist, composer and inventor of musical instruments = [died: 1999]
8 June: FREDDIE WEBSTER = American jazz musician = [died: 1947]
15 June: HORACIO SALGÁN = Afro-Argentine pianist, composer and orchestra leader = [died: 2016]
17 June: EINAR ENGLUND = Finnish composer = [died: 1999]
26 June: GIUSEPPE TADDEI = Italian operatic baritone = [died: 2011]
9 July;

DEAN GOFFIN = New Zealand Salvation Army composer = [died: 1984]
EDWARD HEATH = British Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, organist and conductor = [died: 2005]

12 July: SAM TAYLOR = American jazz musician = [died: 1990]
16 July: MILES COPELAND, Jr. = American musician and CIA agent = [died: 1991]
24 July: BOB EBERLY = American singer with Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra = [died: 1981]
28 July: ROSINA RAISBECK = Australian operatic mezzo-soprano = [died: 2006]
29 July: CHARLIE CHRISTIAN = American swing and jazz guitarist = [died: 1942]
3 August: CLAUDE DEMETRIUS = African American songwriter = [died: 1988]
18 August: MOURA LYMPANY = English pianist = [died: 2005]
21 August: BILL LEE = American singer = [died: 1980]
24 August: LÉO FERRÉ = French and Monegasque poet, singer, songwriter and composer = [died: 1993]
27 August: MARTHA RAYE = American singer and actress = [died: 1994]
8 September: RENÉ TOUZET = Cuban-born American composer, pianist and bandleader = [died: 2003]
13 September: DICK HAYMES = Argentinian-born American singer and actor = [died: 1980]
16 September: M.S. SUBBULAKSHMI = Indian Carnatic vocalist = [died: 2004]
3 October: DAVID MANN = American songwriter = [died: 2002]
19 October:

KARL-BIRGER BLOMDAHL = Swedish composer and conductor = [died: 1968]
EMIL GILELS = Ukrainian classical pianist = [died: 1985]

28 October: BILL HARRIS = American jazz trombonist = [died: 1973]
29 October: HADDA BROOKS = American pianist, singer and composer = [died: 2002]
6 November: RAY CONNIFF = American trombonist and bandleader = [died: 2002]
10 November: BILLY MAY = American composer and arranger = [died: 2004]
11 December: PEREZ PRADO = Cuban bandleader and composer = [died: 1989]
15 December:

BUDDY COLE = American jazz musician = [died: 1964]
GRETA GYNT = Norwegian singer, dancer and actress = [died: 2000]

18 December: BETTY GRABLE = American star of many Hollywood musicals = [died: 1973]
25 December:

OSCAR MOORE = American jazz guitarist = [died: 1981]
GRACIELA NARANJO = Venezuelan singer and actress = [died: 2001]

27 December: JOHNNY FRIGO = American jazz violinist and bassist = [died: 2007]

Timeline of Musical Events

1 February: CARL NIELSEN conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 4, the Inextinguishable, in Copenhagen
11 February: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its first concert
5 June: Stein's Dixie Jass Band plays its first gig under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jass Band.

Also in 1916:-

The Original Dixieland Jass Band make a hit in Chicago, Illinois
WILBER SWEATMAN records his hot ragtime in New York City
Sydney conservatorium of music in Australia accepted first students

Published Popular Music

"Allah's Holiday" = lyrics by OTTO HARBACH; music by RUDOLF FRIML
"And They Called It Dixieland" = lyrics by RAYMOND EGAN; music by RICHARD A. WHITING
"Arrah Go On, I'm Gonna Go Back To Oregon" = lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS & JOE YOUNG; music by BERT GRANT
"At Finnigan's Ball" = lyrics & music by BERT LEE
"Baby Shoes" = by JOE GOODWIN
"Beale Street Blues" = lyrics & music by W. C. HANDY
"A Broken Doll" = lyrics & music by JAMES W. TATE & FRANK CLIFFORD HARRIS
"Bugle Call Rag" = lyrics & music by EUBIE BLAKE & CAREY MORGAN
"Bull Frog Blues" = by TOM BROWN, GUY SHRIGLEY
"The Cobbler's Song" = lyrics by OSCAR ASCHE; music by FREDERIC NORTON
"La Cumparsita" = lyrics (1932) by CAROL RAVEN; music by G. H. MATOS RODRIGUEZ
"Don't Leave Me, Daddy" = by JOE VERGES
"Down In Honky Tonky Town" = lyrics by CHARLES McCARRON; music by CHRIS SMITH
"Down Where The Swanee River Flows" = lyrics by CHARLES McCARRON; music by CHARLES S. ALBERTE
"For Dixie And Uncle Sam" = lyrics by J. KEIRN BRENNAN; music by ERNEST R. BALL
""Forever" Is A Long, Long Time" = lyrics by DARL MacBOYLE; music by ALBERT VON TILZER
"From Here To Shanghai" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Give Me All Of You" = by SCHWARTZWALD
"Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You" = lyrics by J. KEIRN BRENNAN; music by ERNEST R. BALL
"Green Hills Of Somerset" = lyrics by FRED E. WEATHERLY; music by ERIC COATES
"Have A Heart" = lyrics by GENE BUCK; music by JEROME KERN
"Homesickness Blues" = lyrics & music by CLIFF HESS
"The Honolulu Blues" = lyrics by GRANT CLARKE & EDDIE COX; music by JAMES V. MONACO
"How's Every Little Thing In Dixie?" = lyrics by JACK YELLEN; music by ALBERT GUMBLE
"Hula Lou" = lyrics by EDWARD GROSSMITH; music by TED D. WARD
"I Ain't Got Nobody" = lyrics by ROGER GRAHAM & DAVE PEYTON; music by SPENCER WILLIAMS
"I Can Dance With Everybody But My Wife" = lyrics by JOSEPH CAWTHORN & JOHN GOLDEN; music by JOHN GOLDEN
"I Sent My Wife To The Thousand Isles" = lyrics by ANDREW B. STERLING & ED MORAN; music by HARRY VON TILZER
"I Want To Marry A Male Quartette" = lyrics by OTTO HARBACH; music by RUDOLF FRIML
"If I Knock The "L" Out Of Kelly" = lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS & JOE YOUNG; music by BERT GRANT
"If You Were the Only Girl (in the World)" = lyrics by CLIFFORD GREY; music by NAT D. AYER
"I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" = lyrics & music by N. J. CLESI
"Ireland Must Be Heaven, for My Mother Came from There" = lyrics by JOSEPH McCARTHY & HOWARD JOHNSON; music by FRED FISHER
"I've A Shooting Box In Scotland" = lyrics & music by THOMAS LAWRASON RIGGS & COLE PORTER
"Joe Turner Blues" = lyrics by WALTER HIRSCH; music by W. C. HANDY
"Katinka" = lyrics by OTTO HARBACH; music by RUDOLF FRIML
"Keep Your Eye On The Girlie You Love" = lyrics by HOWARD JOHNSON & ALEX GERBER; music by IRA SCHUSTER
"The Laddies Who Fought And Won" = lyrics & music by HARRY LAUDER
"Li'l Liza Jane" = lyrics & music by Countess ADA DE LACHAU
"Love Me At Twilight" = lyrics by WILLIAM JEROME & JOE YOUNG; music by BERT GRANT
"Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose" = lyrics by RAYMOND EGAN; music by RICHARD WHITING
"M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I" = lyrics by BERT HANLON & BENNY RYAN; music by HARRY TIERNEY
"Movie Trot" = music by HARRY H. RAYMOND
"My Hawaiian Sunrise" = lyrics & music by L. WOLFE GILBERT & CAREY MORGAN
"My Syncopated Melody Man" = lyrics & music by BLANCHE MERRILL & EDDIE COX
"Nat'an, For What Are You Waitin', Nat'an" = lyrics & music by JAMES KENDRIS
"Naughty! Naughty! Naughty!" = lyrics by JOE GOODWIN & WILLIAM TRACEY; music by NAT VINCENT
"Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice" = lyrics & music by CECIL MACK & CHRIS SMITH
"O'Brien Is Tryin' To Learn To Talk Hawaiian" = lyrics by AL DUBIN; music by RENNIE CORMACK
"Oh! How She Could Yacki, Hacki, Wicki, Wacki, Woo" = lyrics by STANLEY MURPHY & CHARLES McCARRON; music by ALBERT VON TILZER
"Operatic Rag" = by J. LENSBERG
"Poor Butterfly" = lyrics by JOHN GOLDEN; music by RAYMOND HUBBELL
"Pretty Baby" = lyrics by GUS KAHN; music by TONY JACKSON & EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE
"Rackety Coo!" = lyrics by OTTO HARBACH; music by RUDOLF FRIML
"Rolling Stones - All Come Rolling Home Again" = lyrics by EDGAR LESLIE; music by ARCHIE GOTTLER
"Roses of Picardy" = lyrics by FREDERICK WEATHERLY; music by HAYDN WOOD
"Shamrock Rag" = music by EUDAY L. BOWMAN
"She Is The Sunshine Of Virginia" = lyrics by BALLARD MacDONALD; music by HARRY CARROLL
"Sierra Sue" = lyrics & music by JOSEPH BUELL CAREY
"Someone Else May Be There While I'm Gone" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Sweet Cider Time When You Were Mine" = lyrics by JOE McCARTHY; music by PERCY WENRICH
"Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" = lyrics & music by A. J. MILLS, FRED GODFREY & BENNETT SCOTT
"That Funny Jas Band From Dixieland" = lyrics & music by HENRY I. MARSHAL
"There's A Little Bit Of Bad In Every Good Little Girl" = lyrics by GRANT CLARKE; music by FRED FISHER
"There's A Quaker Down In Quaker Town" = lyrics by DAVID BERG; music by ALFRED SOLMAN
"They Made It Twice As Nice as Paradise and They Called It Dixieland" = lyrics by RAYMOND EGAN; music by RICHARD WHITING
"They're Wearing 'Em Higher In Hawaii" = lyrics by JOE GOODWIN; music by HALSEY K. MOHR
"Throw Me A Rose" = lyrics by P. G. WODEHOUSE & HERBERT REYNOLDS; music by EMMERICH KALLMAN
"Turn Back The Universe And Give Me Yesterday" = lyrics by J. KEIRN BRENNAN; music by ERNEST R. BALL
"Walkin' The Dog" = by SHELTON BROOKS
"What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?" = lyrics by JOSEPH McCARTHY & HOWARD JOHNSON; music by JAMES V. MONACO
"When John McCormack Sings A Song" = lyrics by WILLIAM JEROME & E. RAY GOETZ; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
"When You're Down In Louisville" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night?" = lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS & JOE YOUNG; music by GEORGE W. MEYER
"Where The Black-Eyed Susans Grow" = lyrics by DAVE RADFORD; music by RICHARD WHITING
"Yaacka Hula Hickey Dula" = lyrics & music by E. RAY GOETZ, JOE YOUNG & PETE WENDLING
"You Belong To Me" = lyrics by HARRY B. SMITH; music by VICTOR HERBERT
"You Can't Get Along With 'Em Or Without 'Em" = lyrics by GRANT CLARKE; music by FRED FISHER
"You're In Love" = lyrics by OTTO HARBACH & EDWARD CLARK; music by RUDOLF FRIML

Hit Recordings

"I Love A Piano"

recorded by BILLY MURRAY

"I'm Gonna Make Hay While the Sun Shines in Virginia"

recorded by MARION HARRIS

"Ireland Must Be Heaven, For My Mother Came From There"

recorded by CHARLES HARRISON

"Keep the Home Fires Burning ('Till the Boys Comes Home)"

recorded by JAMES F. HARRISON

"O Sole Mio"

recorded by ENRICO CARUSO

"Pretty Baby"

recorded by BILLY MURRAY

"Santa Lucia"

recorded by ENRICO CARUSO

"Somewhere a Voice is Calling"

recorded by JOHN McCORMACK

"There's A Long Long Trail A-Winding"

recorded by JAMES F. HARRISON

"Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night?"

recorded by AL JOLSON

Classical Music

KURT ATTERBERG

Symphony no. 3, "West Coast Pictures"

BÉLA BARTÓK

Suite for Piano

ERNEST BLOCH

Israel Symphony, String Quartet No. 1

CLAUDE DEBUSSY

Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp

FREDERICK DELIUS

Cello Sonata

GEORGE ENESCU

Piano Trio

ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV

Karelian Legend

JESUS GURIDI

Una aventura de Don Quijote

PAUL HINDEMITH

Cello Concerto in E-flat, Op. 3

LUDVIG HOLM

Concerto for violin and orchestra in G major

CHARLES IVES

Fourth Symphony

ERKKI MELARTIN

Symphony no 5 in A minor, Op. 90, "Sinfonia brevis"

HUBERT PARRY

Jerusalem

SIEGFRIED SALOMON

Concerto for violin and orchestra in G minor

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Burleske for 4 Pantomimes and Chamber Orchestra

HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS

Second Cello Sonata

Opera

RUTLAND BOUGHTON

The Round Table

ENRIQUE GRANADOS

Goyescas

ERWIN LENDVAI

Elga

MANUEL PENELLA

El Gato Montés

FELIX WEINGARTNER

Dame Kobold

Musical Theatre

Opening: 10 January 1916 @ Liberty Theatre, New York, NY

SYBIL [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Comedy)

Music by: Victor Jacobi; Book by: Max Brody, Harry Graham, Franz Martos, Harry B. Smith; Lyrics by: Harry Graham, Harry B. Smith

Closing: 3 June 1916 Performance Count: 168

Opening: 9 February 1916 @ Astor Theatre, New York, NY

THE COHAN REVUE OF 1916 [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Revue)

Music by: George M. Cohan; Book by: George M. Cohan; Lyrics by: George M. Cohan

Closing: 1 July 1916 Performance Count: 165

Opening: 17 February 1916 @ Winter Garden Theatre, New York, NY

ROBINSON CRUSOE, JR. [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Extravaganza)

Music by: James Hanley, Sigmund Romberg; Book by: Edgar Smith; Lyrics by: Harold Atteridge

Closing: 10 June 1916 Performance Count: 139

Opening: 28 February 1916 @ George M. Cohan's Theatre, New York, NY

POM-POM [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Comedy, Opera)

Music by: Hugo Felix; Book by: Anne Caldwell; Lyrics by: Anne Caldwell

Closing: 17 June 1916 Performance Count: 128

Opening: 1 March 1916 @ Park Theatre, New York, NY

THE ROAD TO MANDALAY [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Comedy, Opera)

Music by: Oreste Vessella; Book by: William H. Post; Lyrics by: William McKenna

Closing: 18 March 1916 Performance Count: 21

Opening: 28 March 1916 @ Maxine Elliott's Theatre, New York, NY

SEE AMERICA FIRST [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Comedy, Opera)

Music by: Cole Porter; Book by: T. Lawrason Riggs; Lyrics by: Cole Porter

Closing: 8 April 1916 Performance Count: 15

Opening: 27 April 1916 @ Maxine Elliott's Theatre, New York, NY

COME TO BOHEMIA [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical)

Music by: Kenneth M. Murchison; Book by: George S. Chappell; Lyrics by: George S. Chappell

Closing: 13 May 1916 Performance Count: 20

Opening: 17 May 1916 @ Cort Theatre, New York, NY

MOLLY O' [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Operetta)

Music by: Carl Woess; Book by: Harry B. Smith, Robert B. Smith; Lyrics by: Harry B. Smith, Robert B. Smith

Closing: 24 June 1916 Performance Count: 45

Opening: 24 May 1916 @ Lewisohn Stadium of City College of New York, New York, NY

CALIBAN OF THE YELLOW SANDS [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Spectacle)

Written by: Percy MacKaye

Closing: June 1916 Performance Count: 10

Opening: 29 May 1916 @ Shubert Theatre, New York, transferring on 10 July to Astor Theatre, New York, NY

STEP THIS WAY [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Comedy)

Music by: E. Ray Goetz, Bert Grant; Book by: Edgar Smith; Lyrics by: E. Ray Goetz

Closing: 12 August 1916 Performance Count: 88

Opening: 5 June 1916 @ the Ambassadors Theatre, London

PELL-MELL [Original "London" production]
(Musical)

Revue by Fred Thompson and Morris Harvey; Music: Nat D. Ayer; Lyrics: Clifford Grey and Hugh E. Wright

Closing: date unknown Performance Count: 298

Opening: 12 June 1916 @ New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, NY

ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1916 [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Revue)

Music by: Irving Berlin, Louis A. Hirsch, Jerome Kern, Dave Stamper; Book by: Gene Buck, George V. Hobart; Written by: Gene Buck, George V. Hobart; Lyrics by: Gene Buck, George V. Hobart

Closing: 16 September 1916 Performance Count: 112

Opening: 22 June 1916 @ Winter Garden Theatre, New York, NY

THE PASSING SHOW OF 1916 [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Revue)

Music by: Otto Motzan, Sigmund Romberg; Book by: Harold Atteridge; Lyrics by: Harold Atteridge

Closing: 21 October 1916 Performance Count: 140

Opening: 13 July 1916 @ the Empire Theatre, London

WE'RE ALL IN IT [Original "London" production]
(Revue)

Monckton/Finck/Spencer

Closing: date unknown

Opening: 10 August 1916 @ 39th Street Theatre, New York, NY

YVETTE [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical)

Music by: Frederick Herendeen; Book by: Benjamin Thorne Gilbert; Lyrics by: Frederick Herendeen

Closing: 12 August 1916 Performance Count: 4

Opening: 15 August 1916 @ Maxine Elliott's Theatre, New York, NY

BROADWAY AND BUTTERMILK [Original "Broadway" production]
(Play)

Composer: Charles Grant; Playwright: Willard Mack

Closing: 2 September 1916 Performance Count: 23

Opening: 30 August 1916 @ 44th Street Theatre, New York, transferring on 9 October to Shubert Theatre, New York, NY

THE GIRL FROM BRAZIL [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Comedy)

Music by: Sigmund Romberg, Robert Winterberg; Book by: Edgar Smith; Lyrics by: Matthew C. Woodward

Closing: 21 October 1916 Performance Count: 61

Opening: 31 August 1916 @ Hippodrome Theatre, New York, NY

THE BIG SHOW [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Revue, Spectacle)

Music by: Raymond Hubbell; Book by: R.H. Burnside; Lyrics by: John Golden

Closing: 5 May 1917 Performance Count: 425

Opening: 31 August 1916 @ His Majesty's Theatre, London

CHU CHIN CHOW [Original "West End" production]
(Musical)

Composer: Frederick Norton; Book & Lyricist: Oscar Asche

Closing: date unknown Performance Count: 2238

Opening: 11 September 1916 @ Casino Theatre, New York, transferring on 27 November to 44th Street Theatre, New York, NY

FLORA BELLA [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Operetta)

Music by: Charles Cuvillier, Milton Schwarzwald; Book by: Felix Doermann; Lyrics by: Percy Waxman

Closing: 16 December 1916 Performance Count: 112

Opening: 19 September 1916 @ Globe Theatre, New York, NY

THE AMBER EMPRESS [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Comedy, Opera)

Music by: Zoel Parenteau; Book by: Marc Connelly; Lyrics by: Marc Connelly

Closing: 30 September 1916 Performance Count: 15

Opening: 25 September 1916 @ New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, NY

MISS SPRINGTIME [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Comedy)

Music by: Emmerich Kalman; Book by: Guy Bolton; Lyrics by: Herbert Reynolds, P. G. Wodehouse

Closing: 7 April 1917 Performance Count: 224

Opening: 3 October 1916 @ Globe Theatre, New York, NY

BETTY [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical)

Music by: Paul A. Rubens; Book by: Frederick Lonsdale, Gladys Unger; Lyrics by: Adrian Ross, Paul A. Rubens

Closing: 25 November 1916 Performance Count: 63

Opening: 23 October 1916 @ Shubert Theatre, New York, NY

SO LONG LETTY [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Farce)

Music by: Earl Carroll; Book by: Elmer Harris, Oliver Morosco; Lyrics by: Earl Carroll

Closing: 13 January 1917 Performance Count: 96

Opening: 24 October 1916 @ Princess Theatre, New York, NY

GO TO IT [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical)

Music by: John Golden; Book by: John Golden; Lyrics by: Anne Caldwell, John Golden, John E. Hazzard

Closing: November 1916 Performance Count: 23

Opening: 26 October 1916 @ Winter Garden Theatre, New York, NY

THE SHOW OF WONDERS [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Revue)

Music by: Otto Motzan, Sigmund Romberg, Herman Timberg; Book by: Harold Atteridge; Lyrics by: Harold Atteridge

Closing: 21 April 1917 Performance Count: 209

Opening: 6 November 1916 @ Century Theatre, New York, NY

THE CENTURY GIRL [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Revue)

Music by: Irving Berlin, Victor Herbert; Lyrics by: Irving Berlin, Henry Blossom

Closing: 28 April 1917 Performance Count: 200

Opening: 29 November 1916 @ Casino Theatre, New York, NY

FOLLOW ME [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Comedy)

Music by: Sigmund Romberg; Lyrics by: Robert B. Smith

Closing: 3 February 1917 Performance Count: 78

Opening: 6 December 1916 @ Astor Theatre, transferring on 30 April 1917 to Lyric Theatre, transferring again on 14 May to Shubert Theatre, New York, NY

HER SOLDIER BOY [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical)

Music by: Emmerich Kalman, Sigmund Romberg; Book by: Rida Johnson Young; Lyrics by: Rida Johnson Young

Closing: 26 May 1917 Performance Count: 198

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The Music Maestro Mark Chard BSc, PLY

Page created: 16th May 2011
Last edited: 19th December 2023