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.

Table of contents

1 Songs 2 Broadway production 1913 3 MGM Musical film 1938 4 Broadway revival 1947

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