My Maryland
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My Maryland is a "musical romance" with book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly
and music by Sigmund Romberg
, based on the play Barbara Frietchie by Clyde Fitch
.
Produced by Lee Shubert
and J. J. Shubert, the Broadway
production, opened on September 12, 1927 at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre and then moved to the Casino Theatre for a total run of 312 performances. The cast included Nathaniel Wagner, George Rosener
, and Evelyn Herbert and over 65 others.
Act II
Act III
Dorothy Donnelly
Dorothy Donnelly was a stage actress, playwright, producer, librettist, and lyricist. She made famous the play Madame X on the Broadway stage in 1910 and in a 1916 silent film, the first filming of the story...
and music by Sigmund Romberg
Sigmund Romberg
Sigmund Romberg was a Hungarian-born American composer, best known for his operettas.-Biography:Romberg was born as Siegmund Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Gross-Kanizsa during the Austro-Hungarian kaiserlich und königlich monarchy period...
, based on the play Barbara Frietchie by Clyde Fitch
Clyde Fitch
Clyde Fitch was an American dramatist.-Biography:Born William Clyde Fitch at Elmira, New York, he wrote over 60 plays, 36 of them original, which varied from social comedies and farces to melodrama and historical dramas.As the only child to live to adulthood, his father, Captain William G...
.
Produced by Lee Shubert
Lee Shubert
Levi "Lee" Shubert was a Polish-born American theatre owner/operator and producer and the oldest of seven siblings of the theatrical Shubert family....
and J. J. Shubert, the Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
production, opened on September 12, 1927 at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre and then moved to the Casino Theatre for a total run of 312 performances. The cast included Nathaniel Wagner, George Rosener
George Rosener
George Michael Rosener wrote and acted in the Frank Buck serial Jungle Menace. -Career:...
, and Evelyn Herbert and over 65 others.
Songs
Act I- Strolling with the One I Love the Best
- Mr. Cupid
- Won't You Marry Me?
- Your Land and My Land
- The Same Silver Moon
- The Mocking Bird
Act II
- Strawberry Jam
- Mexico
- Something Old, Something New
- Old John Barleycorn
Act III
- Song of Victory
- Ker-Choo!
- Boys in Gray
- Mother
- Bonnie Blue Flag
- Hail Stonewall Jackson