Maytime

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In the literature19 passages

The second longest running book musical of the decade, Maytime was seen in three New York theatres following its engagement at the Shubert (on 44th Street west of Broadway). book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p38

The success of Maytime proved to Romberg that he could write a show by himself. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p474

The Shuberts modeled Maytime directly on an entertainment from one of the Central European powers with which America was at war. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p208

The three most important of them were The Blue Paradise (1915), a version of Edmund Eysler’s Ein Tag im Paradis ; Maytime (1917), based on Walter Kollo’s Wie einst im Mai ; and Blossom Time (1921), a fictionalised account of the life of Franz Schubert taken from Bert é’s Das Dreimäderlhaus. book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p102

Prewar stage sources include Victor Herbert’s Naughty Marietta (1910, 136 performances) and Sweethearts (1913, 136 performances), as well as Sigmund Romberg’s Maytime (1917, 492 performances). book:dominic-mchugh-the-oxford-handbook-of-musical-theatre-screen-adaptations-2019-ox#p516

Maytime includes only one song from its purported Broadway source. book:dominic-mchugh-the-oxford-handbook-of-musical-theatre-screen-adaptations-2019-ox#p520

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