Bitter Sweet
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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.
- Opened
- 1929
- Performances
- 159
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Early
Productions2 on Broadway
| 1929 | Ziegfeld Theatre Original. November 5, 1929 · Noël Coward | 159 performances |
| 1934 | 44th Street Theatre Revival. May 7, 1934 · Edward J. Scanlon | 16 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 2 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Samuel French | available |
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24 passages naming Bitter Sweet, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
He wrote and directed the London musicals Bitter Sweet and Conversation Piece, both of which came to New York. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p56
5 November: Bitter Sweet, with score and libretto by Noel Coward and starring Evelyn Laye, opens at the Ziegfeld Theater, running 159 performances. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p20
Ziegfeld also produced significant book musicals, including Rio Rita (1927, which opened his Ziegfeld Theater), the history-making Show Boat (1927), Rosalie (1928), The Three Musketeers (1928), Whoopee (1928), and Bitter Sweet (1929). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p423
But, with few exceptions-Countess Maritza (Kalman, 1926); Bitter Sweet (Noel Coward, 1929)-foreign pieces were no longer as popular with American audiences as they had been before the war. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p212
the London hit Bitter Sweet (1929) closed in New York after a run of less than five months. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p130
The New York run of 159 performances would probably have been much longer, but Bitter Sweet and Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern’s Sweet Adeline, both of which seemed primed for lengthy runs, found their presentations curtailed by the crash. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p338
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