Abie's Irish Rose

About the show

Nichols' original Broadway play has the couple meeting in France during World War I. The young man is a wounded soldier and the girl a nurse who tended him. The priest and the rabbi from the wedding are veterans of the same war, and recognize one another from their time in the service. The rest of the plot was summarized by Judge Learned Hand in his opinion on the copyright lawsuit filed by Nichols: There have been some variations of the plot, as to setting, or how the characters meet, in later versions of the play or in adaptations for film.