Miss Springtime is an operetta with music by Emmerich Kálmán. The lyrics are by P.G. Wodehouse and Herbert Reynolds. It opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York on 25 September 1916, where it ran for 224 performances.
Dramatis Personæ
PAUL PILGRIM (editor of the Pilota Gazette) | Charles Meakins |
MICHAEL ROBIN (assistant editor) | John E. Hazzard |
KATSKI SCHMIDT (Rosi's maiden aunt) | Josie Intropodi |
HENRY WENZEL (druggist and postmaster) | Nick Burnham |
HUGO KRAUS ("Native Son" of Pilota) | Maurice Cass |
ROSIKA WENZEL (Wenzel's daughter) | Sari Petrass |
JO VARADY (a Gypsy photographer) | George MacFarlane |
MAIMIE STONE (from New York) | Georgia O'Ramey |
DUSTIN STONE (a rich American) | Jed Prouty |
OFFICER | William Cohan |
INSPECTOR BLOCK (of Budapest) | Percy Woodley |
SECRETARY TO RUDOLPH MARTO | Wayne Nunn |
MAITRE BE BALLET | Fred Nice |
PREMIERE DANSEUSE | Ada Weeks |
RUSSIE | Audrey Burton |
CESSIE | Billie Verson |
MARTO RECEPTION COMMITTEE | { { { { { { |
Teddy Hudson Edna Stillwell June White Cap Storer Joyce Linden Helen Kroner |
ACT I - Old Home Week in the Village of Pilota.
- No. 1 - Opening Duet - Paul and Robin - "Love, to my song and sigh let your eyes unclose..."
- No. 2 - Sunrise Intermezzo
- No. 3 - Song - Robin and Girls - "Tho' some jealous people tell that our town's not up to date..."
- No. 4 - Song - Rosika - "Once upon a time, they say, poor Cinderella lived a lonely life..."
- No. 5 - Duet - Robin and Varady - "First of all you'll have to wear a really most important air..."
- No. 6 - Song - Paul and Rosika - "What is this feeling that's taken hold of me? All over me stealing like waves of harmony..."
- No. 7 - Finale Act I - "Though our town is small, it's good and full of enterprize, too..."
ACT II - Wenzel's Apothecary Shop in Pilota.
- No. 8 - Opening Ensemble - "Who is this man you foolish girls have come to idolize? ..."
- No. 9 - Song - Varady and Girls - "Ev'rywhere you find some heartless trust grinding wretched mortals in the dust..."
- No. 10 - Duet - Varady and Rosika - "Through a bow'r where perfume sweet revealed to me the shy retreat of blossoms..."
- No. 11 - Finale Act II - "Tell me where Rosi is, I've searched high and low; has anyone seen her - I must know? ..."
ACT III - The Stage of the Budapest Opera House.
- No. 12 - Entr'acte
- No. 13 - Song - Rosika and Chorus - "When I was finished with my play, I'd go to bed and out would go the light..."
- No. 14 - Duet - Paul and Rosika - "These are the words that a sweetheart should say: 'Do not delay, let us away'..."
- No. 15 - Finale Act III - "Garden of romances, home of fairest fancies..."
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