Reginald De Koven[?]
Rudolf Friml[?]
Victor Herbert
Emmerich Kalman[?], also known as Imre Kálmán
Franz Lehar
Jacques Offenbach
Sigmund Romberg[?]
Johann Strauss II
Arthur S. Sullivan (of Gilbert and Sullivan)
... role is that of the cranky professor forced to stay immobile because of a broken leg in 1942's The Man Who Came to Dinner[?], which he had performed onstage before taking it ...