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Bitter Sweet

Opened 1929

159 performances

Musical, Early

Evelyn Laye, who was in the 1929 production.

Bitter Sweet is an operetta in three acts, with book, music and lyrics by Noël Coward. The story, set in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century England and Austria-Hungary, centres on a young woman's elopement with her music teacher.

Music: Noël Coward
Lyrics: Noël Coward
Book: Noël Coward

Productions2 on Broadway

1929

Ziegfeld TheatreBroadway Original, opened November 5, 1929, directed by Noël Coward

159 performances

1934

44th Street TheatreBroadway Revival, opened May 7, 1934, directed by Edward J. Scanlon

16 performances

Songs8 songs

The Call of Life, If You Could Come With Me, I’ll See You Again, Ladies of the Town, Dear Little Café, If Love Were All, Tokay, Ziguener

Recordings 2 recordings

1966

Bitter Sweet Music for Pleasure MFP 1091, released 1966

United Kingdom

1969

Bitter Sweet Columbia Records TWO 273, released 1969

Licensing 2 entries

US	Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark	available
UK	Concord Theatricals Samuel French	available

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