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A young coffee salesman submits a slogan to a contest and mistakenly believes he has won its prize and contract. His bosses offer him a promotion instead, but the offer collapses when the mistake emerges—until the company founder intervenes and the contest result proves to be his after all.
Carnival in Flanders is a musical with a book by Preston Sturges, lyrics by Johnny Burke, and music by Jimmy Van Heusen. Based on the 1934 French comedy film La Kermesse Héroïque, it is set in 1616 in the small Flemish village of Flackenburg, where a Spanish duke and his entourage descend upon the community. The mayor plays dead, hoping that his ruse will force the visitors to depart, but the duke sets his sights on the man's "widow" and begins to woo her. The musical had a brief run on Broadway in 1953. The musical is the source of the song "Here's That Rainy Day", which has become a standard.
Madeleine falls in love with millionaire Otto Paul Vanderkill. Their relationship crosses New York’s social divisions, and her pregnancy forces him to confront his family’s expectations.
An English clergyman falls in love with an American woman he takes for a gold digger. Her self-sacrificing nature unsettles his assumptions.
After her fiancé abandons her in a speakeasy for accepting an Italian opera singer’s attention, a young woman spends the night in the singer’s upstairs apartment. His attempted seduction turns into an unexpectedly tender comedy of manners, and she later breaks with her fiancé.
A novice woman playwright experiments on a young man while researching a seduction scene; he later realizes he has been used as her subject and resents it, creating the misunderstanding that must be resolved in the final act.
The Well of Romance is a 1930 musical comedy operetta in two acts with book and lyrics by Preston Sturges and music by H. Maurice Jacquet. It was Sturges' fourth production to appear on Broadway.
A young coffee salesman submits a slogan to a contest and mistakenly believes he has won its prize and contract. His bosses offer him a promotion instead, but the offer collapses when the mistake emerges—until the company founder intervenes and the contest result proves to be his after all.
Carnival in Flanders is a musical with a book by Preston Sturges, lyrics by Johnny Burke, and music by Jimmy Van Heusen. Based on the 1934 French comedy film La Kermesse Héroïque, it is set in 1616 in the small Flemish village of Flackenburg, where a Spanish duke and his entourage descend upon the community. The mayor plays dead, hoping that his ruse will force the visitors to depart, but the duke sets his sights on the man's "widow" and begins to woo her. The musical had a brief run on Broadway in 1953. The musical is the source of the song "Here's That Rainy Day", which has become a standard.
Madeleine falls in love with millionaire Otto Paul Vanderkill. Their relationship crosses New York’s social divisions, and her pregnancy forces him to confront his family’s expectations.
An English clergyman falls in love with an American woman he takes for a gold digger. Her self-sacrificing nature unsettles his assumptions.
After her fiancé abandons her in a speakeasy for accepting an Italian opera singer’s attention, a young woman spends the night in the singer’s upstairs apartment. His attempted seduction turns into an unexpectedly tender comedy of manners, and she later breaks with her fiancé.
A novice woman playwright experiments on a young man while researching a seduction scene; he later realizes he has been used as her subject and resents it, creating the misunderstanding that must be resolved in the final act.
The Well of Romance is a 1930 musical comedy operetta in two acts with book and lyrics by Preston Sturges and music by H. Maurice Jacquet. It was Sturges' fourth production to appear on Broadway.