Bitter Sweet

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He wrote and directed the London musicals Bitter Sweet and Conversation Piece, both of which came to New York. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p56

5 November: Bitter Sweet, with score and libretto by Noel Coward and starring Evelyn Laye, opens at the Ziegfeld Theater, running 159 performances. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p20

Ziegfeld also produced significant book musicals, including Rio Rita (1927, which opened his Ziegfeld Theater), the history-making Show Boat (1927), Rosalie (1928), The Three Musketeers (1928), Whoopee (1928), and Bitter Sweet (1929). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p423

But, with few exceptions-Countess Maritza (Kalman, 1926); Bitter Sweet (Noel Coward, 1929)-foreign pieces were no longer as popular with American audiences as they had been before the war. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p212

the London hit Bitter Sweet (1929) closed in New York after a run of less than five months. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p130

The New York run of 159 performances would probably have been much longer, but Bitter Sweet and Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern’s Sweet Adeline, both of which seemed primed for lengthy runs, found their presentations curtailed by the crash. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p338

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