The run closed January 3, 1914
- Opened
- September 8, 1913
- Closed
- January 3, 1914
- Performances
- 136
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- New Amsterdam Theatre
Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record a performance count, this is the 194th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Sweethearts 2 more that season
| 1929 | Jolsons 59th Street Theatre Revival · Milton Aborn | 17 perf. |
| 1947 | Shubert Theatre Revival · John Kennedy | 288 perf. |
Who was in it17 named
Edith Allen
Frank Belcher
Edward Crawford
Briggs French
Gretchen Hartman
Cecilia Hoffman
Hazel Kirke
Nellie Mccoy
Robert O Connor
Gene Peltier
Gertrude Rudd
Lionel Walsh
5 of these 17 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 12 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Fred Latham
- Choreographer
- Charles Morgan Jr.
- Producer
- Louis Werba & Mark Luescher
- Orchestrations
- Victor Herbert
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Recordings 2 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Sweethearts, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
Victor Herbert's Sweethearts was a hit in 1913 and so was Hazel Dawn in a musical adapted from the French called The Little Cafe. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 26
- VicToR HERBERT charged that people had heard a Herbert composition, “Sweethearts,” played in Shanley’s Restaurant on April 1, 1915. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 54
- “a young lady who was not an actress, who had never been employed in a theatrical production,” sang the song. The last point stated that although “Sweethearts” was a part of a theater piece, the version of the song used by the orchestra was “published as a separate musical composition by G. Schirmer, Inc., in the form… Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 55
- Sweethearts (9/8/13; 136 performances) was another of Herbert’s shows with a celebrated score. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 260
- Smith’s greatest musical successes—Robin Hood, The Spring Maid, Sweethearts, Watch Your Step, Countess Maritza, The Girl from Utah, and The Rich Mr. Hoggenheimer—were written in collaboration with such composers as Ludwig Englander, Reginald De Koven, Victor Herbert, John Philip Sousa, Robert Hood Bowers, Gus Edwards,… Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 521
- a revival of the Victor Herbert operetta Sweethearts (it was hit, by the way), he returned to a more expected brand of humor, leading the Mike Todd “tired businessman” specialties As the Girls Go and Peep Show, his last Broadway appearance, in 1950. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 57
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- Which of the 2 recordings of Sweethearts document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.