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''The Serenade'' is an operetta with music and lyrics by Victor Herbert, and book by Harry B. Smith. Produced by a troupe called "The Bostonians", it premiered on Broadway on March 16, 1897 at the Knickerbocker Theatre and ran initially for 79 performances. It remained very popular into the new century, running almost continuously for the next seven years.〔(Review of the Lyric Theatre of San Jose's 2006 production )〕 Herbert's second Broadway success (after ''The Wizard of the Nile''), ''The Serenade'' is a romantic comedy about a song that sweeps the Spanish countryside. It has a complicated plot involving a girl, her near-sighted guardian who is trying to woo her, and a suitor who steals the girl away from the guardian.〔 ''The Serenade'' helped spark the career of Alice Nielsen, a young soprano from Nashville. She went on to form her own theatre company and continued to star in other Herbert operettas.〔(Article about Herbert and ''The Serenade'' )〕 It was revived on March 4, 1930 at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre, where it ran for 15 performances. ==Characters and original cast== *The Duke of Santa Cruz - Henry Clay Barnabee *Mother Superior - Josephine Bartlett *Colombo (tenor) - Harry Brown *Mercedes - Louise Cleary *Romero - Eugene Cowles *Fra Anselmo - Harry Dale *Dolores (contralto) - Jessie Bartlett Davis *Gomez - George B. Frothingham *Isabella - Leonora Guito *El Gato - Charles Hawley *Manuelo - Bertha Lovejoy *Carlos Alvarado (baritone) - William H. MacDonald *The Abbot - James E. Miller *Yvonne (soprano) - Alice Nielsen *Lopez (tenor) - William E. Philp *Juana - Marcia Van Dresser *Fra Timoteo - Adam Warmouth 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Serenade」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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