Sweethearts (theater)

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Sweethearts is a musical theater production with music by Victor Herbert, lyrics by Robert B. Smith and book by Harry B. Smith and Fred De Gressac.

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[edit] Songs

  • "Angelus"
  • "The Cricket On The Hearth"
  • "Every Lover Must Meet His Fate"
  • "Jeannette And Her Little Wooden Shoes"
  • "Pretty As A Picture"
  • "Sweethearts"

[edit] Broadway production 1913

The show opened at the New Amsterdam Theater on September 8, 1913 and ran for 136 performances.

CAST:

  • Christie MacDonald as Princess Sylvia
  • Thomas Conkey as Prince Franz
  • Edwin Wilson as Lieutenant Karl
  • Frank Belcher as Petrus Von Trump
  • Tom McNaughton as Mikel Mikeloviz
  • Ethel Du Fre Houston as Dame Paula
  • Hazel Kirk as Liane

[edit] MGM Musical film 1938

The film version was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starred Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.

[edit] Broadway revival 1947

The show opened at the Shubert Theater on January 21, 1947 and ran for 288 performances. It featured a revised book by John Cecil Holm and musical direction by Robert Russell Bennett.

CAST:

  • Bobby Clark as Mikel Mikeloviz
  • Marjorie Gateson as Dame Lucy
  • June Knight as Liane
  • Gloria Story as Princess Sylvia
  • Mark Dawson as Prince Franz
  • Robert Shackleton as Lieutenant Karl
  • Paul Best as Petrus Von Trump
  • Cornell MacNeil as the Footman