The Desert Song

• Original Broadway Production (1926)
  New York, NY
• D
  London Production (1927)
  London, England
• Film Version (1929)
  unknown location
• D
  Film Version (1943)
  unknown location
• D
  Chicago Theater of the Air Radio Broadcast (1945)
  Chicago, IL
• D
  Broadway Revival (1946)
  New York, NY
• D
  National Tour (1949)
  unknown location
• Film Version (1953)
  unknown location
• D
  Television Production (1955)
  unknown location
• D
  London Revival (1967)
  London, England
• Broadway Revival (1973)
  New York, NY
• D
  Light Opera of Manhattan Revival (1986)
  New York, NY
• D
  New York City Opera Revival (1987)
  New York, NY
• D
  New York City Opera Revival (Return Engagement) (1989)
  New York, NY

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There are a total of 25 productions in Ovrtur's database.

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• Original score

  • High on a Hill
    • a.k.a. Feasting Song
    • a.k.a. Prelude
  • The Riff Song
    • a.k.a. Ho!
  • Margot
  • I'll Be a Buoyant Girl
  • Why Did We Marry Soldiers?
    • a.k.a. Did You Call For Soldiers True?
  • French Military Marching Song
  • Romance
  • Then You Will Know
    • a.k.a. Then You Will Know I Love You
  • I Want a Kiss
  • It
  • The Desert Song
  • Won't You Wish Us Luck?
    • a.k.a. Finale Act I
  • Azuri's Dance
  • Soft As a Pigeon
  • I Have a Command for You All
  • My Little Castagnette
    • a.k.a. Beneath a Spanish Sky
  • Song of the Brass Key
  • One Good Man Gone Wrong
    • a.k.a. One Good Boy Gone Wrong
  • Eastern and Western Love
    • a.k.a. Let Love Come
    • a.k.a. Let Love Go
  • One Flower Grows Alone in Your Garden
    • a.k.a. If One Flower Grows Alone
  • One Alone
  • The Sabre Song
  • Farewell
  • All Hail the General
  • Let's Have a Love Affair
  • Azuri's Dance of Triumph
    • a.k.a. Dance of Triumph

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• Cut prior to opening

  • Love's Dear Yearning
    • a.k.a. Dreaming in Paradise
  • Not for Him
  • Ali Up
  • Love Is a Two-Edged Sword

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• Added to film version

  • Fifi's Song

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• Added to 1943 film version

  • Long Live the Night
  • Gay Parisienne

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Recordings listed here were done in the studio specifically to release as recordings. They do not represent cast recordings of a particular production.

• No demos listed.

No source listed.

In a story similar to The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Red Shadow and his men are Robin-Hooding against the French who are taking over Morocco.  When The Red Shadow's true love follows her fiancée to Morroco, he decides he must win her over.

The original production opened out of town under the title Lady Fair.

• Fair Lady (working title)
• Lady Fair (original title)