Maytime is a musical with music by Sigmund Romberg and lyrics and book by Rida Johnson Young, and additional lyrics by Cyrus Wood. It was originally produced at the Stamford Theatre, Stamford CT, on 7 August 1917, and for the first time on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre, New York, on 16 August 1917.

Dramatis Personæ

ACT I - 1840

ACT II - 1855

ACT III - In the 1880's

ACT IV - Twentieth Century

MIDI Files

ACT I   -   The Van Zandt home in Washington Square, New York City.   (1840)

• No. 1 - Overture
• No. 2 - Opening Chorus - "Tap, fellows, tap!  We're tapping all the day! ..."
• No. 3 - Duet - Dick and Ottillie - "There's a home in the land, the fair land of my dreams, that's waiting for you and me..."
• No. 4 - Song - Matthew and Girls - "The Battery's a charming place to take a little walk..."
• No. 5 - Gypsy Song - Rudolpho - "Do you hear the woodland call?  Hear the silver streams that murmur low? ..."
• No. 6 - Exeunt Gypsies
• No. 7 - Duet - Dick and Ottillie - "Ah, love is so sweet in the spring-time, when blossoms are fragrant in May..."
• No. 8 - Finale Act I   (played under spoken dialogue)

ACT II   -   Mme. Delphine's Night Club.   (1855)

• No. 9 - Entr'acte   (reprise of no. 4)
• No. 10 - Opening Mazurka
• No. 11 - Song - Matthew - "It's a dance that's rather shocking to a spinster or a frump..."
• No. 12 - Duet - Dick and Ottillie - "The road from here to Paradise, how very long it seems!..."
• No. 13 - Song - Signor Vivalle - "Ah, love is so sweet in the spring-time..."
  (reprise of no. 7)
• No. 14 - Finale Act II

ACT III   -   The Back Parlor of the Van Zandt house in Washington Square, in the 1880's.

• No. 15 - Entr'acte   (reprise of no. 12)
• No. 16 - Opening Chorus - "Old things, old things, lot of tarnished gold things.  Wonder how they have the face..."
• No. 17 - Finale Act III - "Sweetheart, sweetheart, sweetheart!  Will you love me ever? ..."

ACT IV   -   The Back Parlor of the Van Zandt house in Washington Square, in the 1880's.

• No. 18 - Entr'acte   (reprise of no. 11)
• No. 19 - Opening Chorus - "Since the war in Europe, I have been so busy!  Goodness, what I have gone through! ..."
• No. 20 - Duet - Ermintrude and Matthew - "People have always danced, by lovely melodies entranced..."
• No. 21 - Song - Richard and Girls - "This used to be my notion of ev'ry earthly bliss..."
• No. 22 - Dance
• No. 23 - Melodram and Finale Act IV - "Sweetheart, sweetheart, sweetheart!  Will you love me ever? ..."

MIDI files

External Links

Vocal Score at UR Research

Maytime at Wikipedia

American Musical Theatre

Page modified 13 January 2017