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Sweet Adeline

Shows · Sweet Adeline

Because of their admiration for Helen Morgan’s performance in Show Boat, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein collaborated on a nostalgic musical designed as a vehicle to show off the singer’s talents. Set in and around New York in 1898, the story concerns Addie Schmidt, the daughter of a Hoboken beer-garden owner, and her three loves.

Opened
1929
Performances
234
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Jerome KernLyrics: Oscar Hammerstein IIBook: Oscar Hammerstein II

Productions1 on Broadway

1929 Hammerstein’s Theatre Original. September 3, 1929 · Reginald Hammerstein 234 performances

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In the literature13 passages

After Show Boat Kern and Hammerstein would collaborate on three of the composer’s remaining five Broadway shows, two with respectable runs, Sweet Adeline (1929) and Music in the Air (1932), and a disappointing Very Warm for May (1 939). Despite book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p67

“Bill.” Two years later, Kern created Sweet Adeline as a vehicle for her. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p267

SWEET ADELINE ran headlong into the stock market crash and could not survive. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p86

Critics and audiences alike stopped in amazement, stunned by that stunning song— which to this day, after seventy years, is still unpublished. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p15

Kern and Hammerstein would collaborate on three of the composer’s remaining five Broadway shows, two with respectable runs, Sweet Adeline (1929) and Music in the Air (1932), and a disappointing Very Warm for May (1939). book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-to-sondheim-and-lloyd-web#p68

SWEET ADELINE (WARNER. 1934) The plot and songs were fairly faithful to the Kern-Hammerstein musical, and you can hear the beauties that Jerome Kern wrote for Helen Morgan. book:musical-a-grand-tour-the-rise-glory-and-fall-of-an-flinn-denny-martin-new-york-l#p538

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