The Spring Maid

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The Spring Maid is an operetta with music by Heinrich Reinhardt. The original German libretto was by Julius Wilhelm and A.M. Willner. The English book is by Harry B. and Robert B. Smith with lyrics by Robert B. Smith. It was performed at the Tremont Theatre, Boston, on 5 December 1910.

Dramatis Personæ

PRINCESS BOZENA,

Miss Christie MacDonald

visiting Carlsbad Spa with her father, Prince Nepomuk

PRINCE NEPOMUK, possessed of more ancestry than income

Mr. William Burress

PRINCE ALADAR, a Hungarian nobleman

Mr. Lawrence Rea

ANNAMIRL,

Miss Elgie Bowen

favorite fountain girl at Carlsbad, known as "The Spring Maid"

BARON RUDI, a cousin of Princess Bozena

Mr. Ralph Erolle

ROLAND, a famous English tragedian

Mr. Tom McNaughton

URSULA, one of Roland's admiring matinee patrons

Miss Jessie Bradbury

SPAETLING, a Commissioner of Police

Mr. Charles Meyers

EVAKATL, keeper of a popular hostelry

Miss Blanche Sherwood

COL. BOOME, who objects to the water cure

Mr Edward Metcalf

MR. LOMAX, who is trying to get thin

Mr. Arthur Thalasso

MR. SKINNER, who is trying to get stout

Mr. Otto Hoffman

GRETEL
HANNI
JOSIE
FRITZI
SOPHIE
ELISE
BARBARA

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(the Spring Girls)

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Miss Irene O'Donnell
Miss Mae Carlisle
Miss Beatrice MacKay
Miss Margaret Langdon
Miss Lydia Bell
Miss Leonie Benzinger
Miss Anitra MacTavish

TONI
NIKI
FRANZ
FRITZ
LOUIS
LEO
VLADIMIR
EUGENE

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(Officers)

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Mr. E. H. Barlab
Mr. Joseph Barlowe
Mr. William J. Kleine
Mr. T. B. MacDonald
Mr. Charles A. Minton
Mr. C. M. Porter
Mr. Joseph H. Smith
Mr. Al C. Van Sands

MIDI Files

Overture

ACT I - A Fountain Square, Carlsbad.

No. 1 - Introduction - Annamirl and Chorus - "Annamirl, pretty girl, health is where your beauty lies..."
No. 2 - Song - Rudi and Officers - "When our Emperor gives us his command to protect our cherished native land..."
No. 3 - Solo - Bozena - "The model hero of romance lives only in imagination..."
No. 4 - Trio - Spaetling, Roland and Ursula - "To ferret out the guilty one in any detective case..."
No. 5 - Duet - Bozena and Nepomuk - "My dear, you should no longer tarry; with all your lovers, you are still heart free..."
No. 6 - Song - Prince Aladar - "I've been a gay and restless rover, I've lived and loved in ev'ry land..."
No. 7 - Fountain Fay Song - Bozena - "A frock divinely simple, of good domestic taste..."
No. 8 - Duet - Bozena and Prince Aladar - "My loved one, I have longed to see a maid so fair and charming..."
No. 9 - Finale Act I - "Ev'ry morning here we gather early as the roosters crow..."

ACT II - Scene 1 - The Bee-Farm at Bitterbrunnen, near Carlsbad, the following afternoon.

Entre Acte
No. 10 - Opening Chorus and Solo - Annamirl - "Beer here, beer here, will someone give us beer? ..."
No. 11 - Quartette - Bozena, Annamirl, Rudi and Aladar - "My lady Princess has the notion love is for those of high degree..."
No. 12 - Melodrama - Duel Scene
No. 13 - Duet - Bozena and Aladar - "Your fame as a Romeo so true made me very anxious to know you..."
No. 14 - Finale to Scene 1 - "We'd have a holiday, last our lives long, when drink is giv'n away just for a song..."

ACT II - Scene 2 - The Annual Al Fresco Fête at Carlsbad.

No. 15 - Ballet Interlude
No. 16 - Finale Act II - "What! the spring has stopped! That's very strange, I wonder
why? ..."

Items 11, 12, 15, and parts of nos. 3 and 16 were composed by Robert Hood Bowers.

MIDI files

American Musical Theatre

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