Book contents
- The Year that Made the Musical
- Reviews
- The Year that Made the Musical
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Part I From One Year to the Next
- Part II From Winter to Spring
- Part III From Summer to Autumn
- Part IV From December Onwards
- 13 The First Day of the Last Month of 1924
- 14 In the Days and Weeks that Followed
- 15 Legacies of 1924
- Select Discography and Videography
- Permissions
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
14 - In the Days and Weeks that Followed
from Part IV - From December Onwards
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 September 2024
- The Year that Made the Musical
- Reviews
- The Year that Made the Musical
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Part I From One Year to the Next
- Part II From Winter to Spring
- Part III From Summer to Autumn
- Part IV From December Onwards
- 13 The First Day of the Last Month of 1924
- 14 In the Days and Weeks that Followed
- 15 Legacies of 1924
- Select Discography and Videography
- Permissions
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Summary
On 2 December, Sigmund Romberg and Dorothy Donnelly’s The Student Prince in Heidelberg (or The Student Prince), a romance-filled operetta that does not have a happy ending, opened on Broadway, later becoming the longest-running musical of any sort to open on Broadway in the 1920s. Set in nineteenth-century Heidelberg, its tale of a prince who must leave behind his young love, a waitress at the inn he frequents, is set to an expansive musical score that features waltzes, marches, a buoyant drinking song and more. Other musicals that followed later in the month included Betty Lee, set in Southern California with a plot concerning a footrace in which a phonograph is the prize. Revues also appeared as the year drew to a close, further emphasizing the ubiquity of the genre.
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- The Year that Made the Musical1924 and the Glamour of Musical Theatre, pp. 203 - 214Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024