Sweet Adeline is a Broadway musical with music by Jerome Kern, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and original Orchestration by Robert 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 by Eric D. Schaeffer and choreographed by John DeLuca in a concert adaptation by Norman Allen.
It starred:
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Casting was by Jay Binder; the scenic consultant, John Lee Beatty; apparel coordinator, Gregg Barnes; lighting by Howell Binkley and sound by Bruce Cameron. The production stage manager was Clayton Phillips; and musical coordinator, Seymour "Red" Press.
External links
- NY Times review by Brooks Atkinson, September 4, 1929
- NY Times review by John S. Wilson, May 24, 1985, of the Carnegie Hall and Town Hall Kern centennial
- NY Times review by Ben Brantley, June 1, 1997, of the Encores! revival
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