On Broadway
Marguerite Sylva's American stage debut was in the play, The Seats of the Mighty (1896). However, her early appearances on Broadway were mainly in musical comedies, comic operas and operettas. Sylva toured widely in the United States in this repertoire. This list is restricted to her known Broadway performances only:
- Mlle. Pompom in the premiere of The Fortune Teller an operetta by Victor Herbert (26 September - 29 October 1898)
- Lady Janet Belford in the premiere Mam'selle 'Awkins, a musical comedy by Herman Perlêt and Alfred E. Aarons (26 February - 31 March 1900.
- Erminie in the revival of Erminie, a comic opera by Edward Jakobowski (19 October - 28 November 1903)
- Zorika in the premiere of Gypsy Love, an English version of Zigeunerliebe, an operetta by Franz Lehár, (17 October - 11 November 1911)
- Elsie in the premiere of The Skylark, a comedy by Thomas P. Robinson (25 July - August 1921)
- Sonya Orlova Varilovna in the premiere of Cousin Sonia, a comedy by Louis Verneuil (7 December 1925 - January 1926)
- Mooda in the premiere of Golden Dawn a musical by Emmerich Kalman (30 November 1927 - 5 May 1928)
- Mahuna in the premiere of Luana a musical comedy by Rudolf Friml (17 September - 4 October 1930
- Giulia Sabittini in the revival of The Great Lover, a comedy by Frederic and Fanny Hatton and Leo Ditrichstein (11 October - October 1932)
- Countess von Hohenbrunn in the premiere of Three Waltzes, a musical by Clare Kummer and Rowland Leigh from the play by Paul Knepler using music by Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II, and Oscar Straus (25 December 1937 - 9 April 1938)
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