Productions3 on Broadway
| 1913 | New Amsterdam Theatre Original. September 8, 1913 · Fred Latham | 136 performances |
| 1929 | Jolsons 59th Street Theatre Revival. September 21, 1929 · Milton Aborn | 17 performances |
| 1947 | Shubert Theatre Revival. January 21, 1947 · John Kennedy | 288 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 2 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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In the literature24 passages
VicToR HERBERT charged that people had heard a Herbert composition, “Sweethearts,” played in Shanley’s Restaurant on April 1, 1915. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p54
“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… book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p55
Sweethearts (9/8/13; 136 performances) was another of Herbert’s shows with a celebrated score. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p260
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,… book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p521
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. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p57
Broadway revivals (The Red Mill, 1945; Sweethearts, 1937). In this sense, and with emphasis on the stageworks at least as much as the individual songs, Victor Herbert-unlike, say, Stephen Foster--can be considered the first great composer of the American musical theater. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p147
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