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Hip! Hip! Hooray!

Book and Lyrics · Musical · 1907

Hip! Hip! Hooray! is a musical in two acts with music by Gus Edwards and both lyrics and book by Edgar Smith. It was written as a starring vehicle for the comedian Joe Weber, premiering on Broadway at Weber's Music Hall on October 10, 1907. It ran at that theatre for 64 performances, closing on December 7, 1907. The story takes place at the fictional Doolittle College, where two German professors attempt to popularize a new breakfast cereal, "Excited Oats", while simultaneously becoming entangled in romance, one with a widow and the other with a beautiful young woman.

Red Pepper

Book · Musical · 1921

At a racetrack in Havana, Cuba, Juniper Berry and Jimpson Weed conspire to get rich quick by influencing the outcome of an impending horse race. They bet against the favored winner, the thoroughbred horse Red Pepper, with the intent of drugging the horse to prevent it from winning the race. Their plans get sidetracked and several side adventures occur. The pair follow the horse to Arizona and then Georgia in the hopes of successfully implementing their scheme.

Robinson Crusoe, Jr.

Book · Musical · 1916

Robinson Crusoe, Jr. is a 1916 musical with a book by Edgar Smith, lyrics by Harold Atteridge, and music by Sigmund Romberg and James Hanley.

The Blue Paradise

Book · Musical · 1915

Rudolph, a frequent customer at the Blue Paradise Inn in Vienna, is in love with Mizzi, a flower girl. He travels to America to operate one of his father's businesses. During the ensuing 24 years, Mizzi marries one of Rudolph's friends, and the couple has converted the inn into their private residence. After this period, when Rudolph returns to Vienna, and not knowing what has happened, he hopes to find Mizzi at the inn, to rekindle their love just as it had been so long ago, and to return to pre-war days. When he arrives at the inn, he sees that it looks just as he remembered it. He imagines that he has travelled back in time and embraces a woman who looks as Mizzi did in their youth. She turns out to be Mizzi's daughter, Gaby. Mizzi admits that she has arranged matters in this fashion so that Rudolph will accept reality; the past is the past. Gaby is engaged to Rudolph's nephew, Hans, and despite his sense of loss, Rudolph's is pleased for his nephew; the new generation will consummate the lost love of Rudolph's youth.

The Magic Knight

Libretto · Musical · 1906

This burlesque of Lohengrin recasts Elsa as an accused singer whose brother Godfrey has been turned into a swan by the enchantress Ortrud. Elsa summons a magic knight, who defeats Frederick and restores Godfrey. When Elsa asks the knight’s name, the spell breaks and he must return to fairyland, leaving her alone and singing cadenzas.

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