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Sweethearts

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.

Songs

"Angelus"

"The Cricket On The Hearth"

"Every Lover Must Meet His Fate"

"Jeannette And Her Little Wooden Shoes"

"Pretty As A Picture"

"Sweethearts"

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

MGM Musical film 1938

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

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

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