Princess Flavia

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Princess Flavia

Sheet music cover (cropped)
Music Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics Harry B. Smith
Book Harry B. Smith
Basis 1894 novel The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
Productions 1925 Broadway

Princess Flavia is an operetta in three acts, with book and lyrics by Harry B. Smith and music by Sigmund Romberg, based on The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope. It was originally entitled “A Royal Pretender” (see image).

Produced by Lee Shubert and J. J. Shubert, the Broadway production, opened on November 2, 1925 at the Century Theatre and then moved to the Shubert Theatre for a total run of 152 performances. The cast included Douglass R. Dumbrille, John Clarke, Margaret Breen, and Evelyn Herbert and over 130 others.

Sheet Music (cropped)

Songs

Act I
  • Yes or No
  • On Comrades
  • Marionettes
  • What Care I?
  • Convent Bells are Ringing
  • I Dare Not Love You
  • By This Token

Act II
  • Dance With Me
  • Twilight Voices
  • Only One

Act III
  • I Love Them All
  • In Ruritania

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