Apple Blossoms

Apple Blossoms is a 1919 operetta with music by Fritz Kreisler and Victor Jacobi; and a libretto by William LeBaron. The show is an adaptation of the book Un Marriage sous Louis XV by Alexander Dumas.{{Cite web |date=15 October 1919 |title=New York Clipper — Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections |url=https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=NYC19191015.2.189&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN---------- |access-date=2023-02-05 |website=idnc.library.illinois.edu |page=6}}{{Cite web |title=Apple Blossoms (Broadway, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 1919) |url=https://playbill.com/production/apple-blossoms-globe-theatre-vault-0000005111 |access-date=5 February 2023 |website=Playbill}}

Apple Blossoms opened at the Globe Theatre on Broadway on October 7, 1919, and closed on April 24, 1920, after 256 performances. The original production was staged by Fred G. Latham and Edward Royce.

Synopsis

Setting: Clifton-on-Hudson and New York City{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LecZEAAAQBAJ&dq=Apple+Blossoms%C2%A0musical+dietz&pg=PA493|title=The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals|author=Dan Dietz|year=2021|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=9781538150283|page=493}}

Nancy Dodge, a student at an all-girls school, is in love with Dickie Stewart, the brother of her classmate, Polly. However, Nancy's uncle, George Winthrop Gordon, wants her to marry Phillip Campbell. Although Phillip is actually in love with a widow, Anne Merton, he and Nancy agree to marry. However, the two also agree that their marriage is one of convenience, and they can pursue other people. During a masked ball, Nancy and Phillip realize that they do actually love each other, and Dickie leaves with Anne.{{Cite book |last=Bordman |first=Gerald Martin |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/656556582 |title=American musical theatre : a chronicle |date=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |others=Richard Norton |isbn=978-0-19-972970-8 |edition=4th |location=New York |pages=393 |oclc=656556582}}

Cast

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!1919 Broadway{{Cite web |title=Apple Blossoms Original Broadway Operetta Cast 1919 |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/shows/Apple-Blossoms-3253/cast |access-date=2023-02-05 |website=Broadway World}}

Julie

|Rena Parker

Polly

|Juanita Fletcher

Molly

Johnny

Nancy

Lucy Fielding