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Madame Sherry

Madame Sherry

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Madame Sherry remains the best remembered of the six productions written by Karl Hoschna and Otto Harbach (who spelled his name Hauerbach until World War I). It was adapted from an English musical of 1903, which had a different score, and which, in turn, had been based on a French musical. Among the reasons for its success were the insinuating number, “Every Little Movement” (“ ... has a meaning all its own”) and the…

Opened
1910
Performances
231
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Karl HoschnaLyrics: Otto HarbachBook: Otto Harbach

Productions1 on Broadway

1910 New Amsterdam Theatre Original. August 30, 1910 · George Lederer 231 performances

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In the literature5 passages

Madame Sherry (8/30/10; 231 performances) was a triumph at the New Amsterdam THEATRE. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p239

Madame Sherry, 115, 116, 117 book:a-pictorial-history-of-the-american-theatre-1860-1985-blum#p489

By the time he took up with Hammerstein, Harbach had written the book and lyrics for a handful of shows, from Madame Sherry, with music by Karl Hoschna (which gave us “Every Little Moment”), to Rudolf Friml’s Firefly, produced by Arthur Hammerstein in 1912, to Going Up, a resilient 351-performance hit at the Liberty Th… book:broadway-musicals-a-hundred-year-history-lewis-david-h-2002-2012-mcfarland-compa#p28

Berlin got a successful musical called Madame Sherry, which boasted a Parisian text by the skillful Maurice Ordonneau. book:the-musical-a-concise-history-second-edition-ga-nzl-kurt-findlay-jamie-2-2022010#p149

Berlin brought out a merry “French” musical comedy about the high jinks surrounding the setting up—for the benefit of a wealthy uncle who thinks he’s been supporting his bachelor nephew’s family—of a phoney Madame Sherry, and its equally lightweight music bore the signature of the almost neophyte Hungarian known as Hug… book:the-musical-a-concise-history-second-edition-ga-nzl-kurt-findlay-jamie-2-2022010#p158

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