- Sweet Adeline (musical)
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Sweet Adeline (musical) ="Sweet Adeline" is a Broadway musical with music by
Jerome Kern , book and lyrics byOscar Hammerstein II and original Orchestration byRobert Russell Bennett . It opened at Hammerstein's Theatre on September 3, 1929, and closed March 22, 1930, after 234 performances.Revival
"Sweet Adeline " was revived in 1997 as part of City Center's "Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert" (artistic director,
Kathleen Marshall ) with musical director Rob Fisher and the Coffee Club Orchestra. The revival was directed byEric D. Schaeffer and choreographed by John DeLuca in a concert adaptation by Norman Allen.It starred:
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Dorothy Loudon
*Tony Randall *
Patti Cohenour
*Stephen Bogardus *Gary Beach
*Myra Carter
*Patrick Breen
*Hugh Panaro
*Jacquelyn Piro
*MacIntyre Dixon
*Kristi Lynes
*Steven GoldsteinAnd:
*Anne Allgood
*Vanessa Ayers
*Jamie Baer
*Chistopher Eaton Bailey
*Timothy Robert Blevins
*Timothy Breese
*Kira Burke
*Philip Chaffin
*Lisa Ericksen
*Peter Flynn
*John Halmi
*Marc Heller
*Damon Kirschenmann
*Shannon Lewis
*Robert Osborne
*Alet Oury
*Alexandre Proia
*Frank Ream
*Margaret Shafer
*Eric van HovenCasting was by Jay Binder; the scenic consultant,
John Lee Beatty ; apparel coordinator,Gregg Barnes ; lighting byHowell Binkley and sound byBruce Cameron . The production stage manager was Clayton Phillips; and musical coordinator, Seymour "Red" Press.External links
* [http://www.ibdb.com/show.php?id=8452 Broadway Database entry]
* [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60B12FB3D5C14738DDDAD0894D1405B898EF1D3 NY Times review by
Brooks Atkinson , September 4, 1929]* [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F00E2D8153DE53ABC4F53DFB766838E629EDE NY Times film review by Andre Sennwald, January 7, 1935]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05E0DE103BF937A15756C0A963948260 NY Times review by John S. Wilson, May 24, 1985, of the
Carnegie Hall and Town Hall Kern centennial]* [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10613FB3C5D127588DDA00A94DC405B878BF1D3 NY Times review by Robert Berkvist, April 29, 1977, of the Goodspeed Opera House revival]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E3D7173AF932A35755C0A961958260 NY Times review by
Ben Brantley , June 1, 1997, of theEncores! revival]* [http://www.nycitycenter.org/content/stage/enc_prev.aspx New York City Center webpage for "Encores!" previous seasons]
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