The Marriage Market is an operetta

Operetta

Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre.-Origins:...

 by Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 Victor Jacobi

Victor Jacobi

Victor Jacobi, Jakobi Viktor was a Hungarian operetta composer.He studied at Zeneakadémia in Budapest at the same time as the noted Hungarian composers Imre Kálmán and Albert Szirmai...

. It was premiered on 14 November 1911 at the Király Színház (King Theater) in Budapest

Budapest

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 and was the composer's first significant success not only in Hungary, but also abroad. The libretto

Libretto

A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...

 was by Miklós Bródy and Ferenc Martos.

English adaptation

The operetta enjoyed English-language productions in 1913, in an adaptation by Gladys Unger, with lyrics by Arthur Anderson

Arthur Anderson (dramatist)

Arthur Anderson was an English dramatist and lyricist, who is best known for his libretti for Edwardian musical comedies.-Biography:...

 and Adrian Ross

Adrian Ross

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. It played at Daly's Theatre

Daly's Theatre

Daly's Theatre was a theatre in the City of Westminster. It was located at 2 Cranbourn Street, just off Leicester Square. It opened on 27 June 1893, and was demolished in 1937.-Early years:...

 in London, starring Gertie Millar

Gertie Millar

Gertrude "Gertie" Millar was one of the most famous English singer-actresses of the early 20th century, known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedies....

, produced by George Edwardes

George Edwardes

George Joseph Edwardes was an English theatre manager of Irish ancestry who brought a new era in musical theatre to the British stage and beyond....

, and at the Knickerbocker Theatre on Broadway, produced by Charles Frohman

Charles Frohman

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, with additional songs by Jerome Kern

Jerome Kern

Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A...

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Roles

• Jack Fleetwood, known as "Slippery Jack"
• Senator Abe K. Gilroy
• Bald-Faced Sandy, Sheriff of Mendocino bluff and proprietor of the Palace Hotel
• Cowboys: Mexican Bill, Shorty, Tabasco Ned and Cheyenne Harry
• Hi-Ti, a Chinese bar-keeper
• Padre Pedro, A Spanish Priest
• Captain on the 'Mariposa'
• Kitty Kent
• Other guests on the yacht: Dolly, Pansy, Peach, Dora and Dolores
• Spanish and American cowboys, Spanish and American girls, Miners, Sailors, Guests, Middies, Footmen, etc.

Musical numbers (English adaptation)

Act I

• Little Chiquita – Pablo and Chorus
• Compliments – Mariposa, Kitty and Jack
• Never Count Your Chickens Before They're Hatched – Emma and Blinker
• American Courtship – Kitty
• The One I Love – Mariposa and Jack
• Come On Boys For This Is Market Day – Chorus
• Hand In Hand – Mariposa, Jack, Kitty and Hurlingham

Act II

• All the Ladies Love a Sailor Man – Captain
• Love Of Mine – Mariposa and Jack
• The Middy – Kitty
• A 1 – Blinker
• On Their Honeymoon – Company
• June Is In the Air – Mariposa and Jack
• Answers – Kitty
• How Things Happen – Hurlingham and Blinker

Act III

• It's Late Now – Blinker
• Jilolo – Kitty

Additional Numbers

• I'm Not A Silly Billy – Kitty
• The Boy In Blue – Captain
• I Don't Believe In Fairies Now – Blinker
• The Heart of a Sailor – Captain and chorus
• Very Little Time For Loving Nowadays – Blinker and chorus
• Joy Bells – Blinker and chorus

External links

• Information from the IBDB database about the New York production