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The Dream Girl (operetta)

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Composer
  
Victor Herbert

Librettist
  
Rida Johnson Young

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The Dream Girl is an operetta in three acts with music by Victor Herbert and book by Rida Johnson Young (who also wrote the lyrics) and Harold R. Atteridge. Based on the 1906 play The Road to Yesterday, by Beulah Marie Dix and Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland, its satiric story concerns reincarnation. Additional music was written by Sigmund Romberg. The piece was Victor Herbert's last musical composition, and the work was produced posthumously on Broadway in 1924.

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Production

The Dream Girl opened at the Ambassador Theatre on Broadway on August 20, 1924 and ran for 117 performances. It starred Fay Bainter, George LeMaire and Walter Woolf and was staged by J. C. Huffman.

Roles and original cast

  • Ken Paulton - Edward Basse
  • Will Levison - John Clarke
  • Elspeth - Fay Bainter
  • Cristoforo - Edmund Fitzpatrick
  • Wilson Addison - George LeMaire
  • Bobby Thompkins - Frank Masters
  • Elinor Levison - Alice Moffat
  • Aunt Harriet - Maude Odell
  • Mr. Gillette - William Oneal
  • Nora - Clara Palmer
  • Dolly Follis - Wyn Richmond
  • Jimmie Van Dyke - Billie B. Van
  • Malena - Vavara
  • Jack Warren - Walter Woolf

    • References

    The Dream Girl (operetta) Wikipedia
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