Dorothy Donnelly

On stage 21 productions, 30 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on3 works

Blossom Time
Poppy
The Student Prince In Heidelberg

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In the literature8 passages

• Three months to the day after the premiere of Rose Marie , Romberg’s The Student Prince (book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly), appeared on Broadway and ran for a decade record of 608 performances. In the musical version of Wilhelm Meyer-Foerster’s play Alt Heidelberg (Old Heidelberg), Karl Franz, prince of mythical Karlsberg, is in love w…ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
• The components of the plot are not startlingly original. More than one operetta had brought down the curtain on a sad ending; Dorothy Donnelly and Romberg had done it in The Student Prince , refusing to give its lovers a blissful outcome. The death of Sunny River ’s hero was another sadness for the audience to deal with, and one of its nu…ebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt
• Music by Sigmund Romberg; book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly, based on Rudolf Bleichman’s play Old Heidelbergebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt
• professional production with Dorothy Donnelly in the title role and Arnold Daly as Marchbanks. Tyrone Power was in “Ulysses” with Rose Coghlan, an illustrious veteran. Joseph Santley, at thetheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
• with Marie Doro in “Clarice,” Ellis Jeffreys and Frank Worthing in “The Fascinating Mr. VanderVeldt Dorothy Donnelly with Julia Dean in “The Little Gray Lady,” Francis Wilson in “The Mountain Climbers,” William H. Crane in “The Price of Money,” Jessie Millward with Richard Bennett and Doris Keane in “Thetheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
• WILLIAM ELLIOTT, DOROTHY DONNELLY, ROBERT P. GIBBS, ROBERT DROUET, L. ROGERS LYTTON in ““MADAME X”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

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