Sweethearts (musical)

Sweethearts
Sheet music for the title song
Music	Victor Herbert
Lyrics	Robert B. Smith
Book	Harry B. Smith Fred DeGrésac
Productions	1913 Broadway 1929 Broadway Revival 1938 film 1947 Broadway Revival

Sweethearts is an operetta or musical play in two acts with music by Victor Herbert, lyrics by Robert B. Smith and book by Harry B. Smith and Fred De Gressac.

The first performance of the work was at the Academy of Music in Baltimore in March 1913, after which the show was overhauled and shortened before spending five weeks in Philadelphia and another five in Boston tryouts.

The original Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on September 8, 1913 and transferred to the Liberty Theatre on November 10, 1913 running for a total of 136 performances. The original cast included Christie MacDonald as Princess Jeanne/Sylvia, Thomas Conkey as Prince Franz, Edwin Wilson as Lieutenant Karl, Frank Belcher as Petrus Von Trump, Tom McNaughton as Mikel Mikeloviz, Ethel Du Fre Houston as Dame Paula, and Hazel Kirk as Liane.

There was a brief revival at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre, opening on September 21, 1929 and closing on October 5, 1929. Gladys Baxter played Sylvia.

MGM made the musical into a film in 1938 with a considerably altered screenplay, directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. This was the first All-TECHNICOLOR film of MGM Studio.

A Broadway revival opened at the Shubert Theater on January 21, 1947 and ran for 288 performances. It featured a revised book by John Cecil Holm and musical direction by Robert Russell Bennett. The cast included Bobby Clark as Mikel, Marjorie Gateson as Dame Lucy, Gloria Story as Princess Sylvia and June Knight as Liane.