A Connecticut Yankee

Connecticut Yankee, A (1927), a musical comedy by Herbert Fields (book), Richard Rodgers (music), Lorenz Hart (lyrics). [Vanderbilt Theatre, 418 perf.] At a party on the eve of his wedding, Martin (William Gaxton) flirts with Alice Carter (Constance Carpenter), which so infuriates his bride‐to‐be, Fay Morgan (Nana Bryant), that she knocks him unconscious with a blow from a champagne bottle. Martin dreams he is in King Arthur's court, where he falls in love with Alisande La Carteloise, who looks just like Alice, but where his wooing and his attempts to modernize the medieval world are thwarted by Merlin (William Norris) and the villainous Morgan Le Fay, the fire‐spitting image of Fay Morgan. When he awakes he decides to marry Alice. Notable songs: I Feel at Home with You; My Heart Stood Still; On a Desert Island with Thee; Thou Swell. Lew Fields produced the light‐hearted musical rendition of Mark Twain's story, which was praised by Brooks Atkinson in the Times as “a novel amusement in the best of taste.” It was successfully revived in 1943, at which time Hart contributed his last Broadway lyric to a riotously black‐humored song, “To Keep My Love Alive.”

Connecticut Yankee may refer to

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, an 1889 novel by Mark Twain
• A Connecticut Yankee (musical), a Broadway musical based on the novel
• A Connecticut Yankee (film), a 1931 film adaptation of the novel (but not the musical)

See also

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (disambiguation)
• Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power Plant a nuclear power plant in Connecticut

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