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The Desert Song   

 
City Center , (1/08/1946 - 2/16/1946)
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Opening Date:Jan 08, 1946   
Closing Date:Feb 16, 1946 Total Performances:45

Category: Musical, Operetta, Revival, Broadway
Description: An operetta in two acts
Setting: Northern Africa.


Production Staff
Produced by Russell Lewis and Howard Young
Libretto by Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II and Frank Mandel; Music by Sigmund Romberg; Musical Director: Waldemar Guterson
Staged by Sterling Halloway; Choreographed by Aida Broadbent
Scenic Design by Boris Aronson
Cast
Barbara Bailey Mardi
Jean Bartel Clementina
a Spanish "lady"
William Bowers Sentinel
George Burnson Ali Ben Ali
Caid of a Riff Tribe
Walter Cassel Pierre Birabeau
General Birabeau's son
Richard Charles Sid El Kar
the Red Shadow's Lieutenant
Clarissa Azuri
Wilton Clary Captain Paul Fontaine
Joseph Claudio Sergeant La Vergne
Louis DeMagnus Nogi
Keith Gingles Ahmed
Jack Goode Benjamin Kidd
Society Correspondent of the Paris Herald
Florette Hillier Yvette
Richard Hughes Harem Guard
Lester Matthews General Birabeau
Governor of a French Moroccan Province
Sherry O'Neil Susan
General Birabeau's ward
Betina Orth Florette
Tamara Page Edith
Thayer Roberts Hassi
Antonio Rovano Sergeant DuBassac
Paul Ruth Riff Runner
Dorothy Sandlin Margot Vonvalet
Jack Saunders Omar
Maria Taweel Yvonne
Edward Wellman Mindar