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outoftowninac · 2 years

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HAVE A HEART

1916-1917

Have A Heart is a musical in two acts and three scenes by Jerome Kern with a book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse with additional music and lyrics by Schuyler Greene, James Kendis, Charles Bayha and Jerome Kern. It was originally produced by Henry W. Savage and staged by Edward Royce.

Although it did not play the Princess Theatre, it was one of five musicals known as ‘the Princess Musicals.’ At the opening night of the Bolton / Kern collaboration, Very Good Eddie, Kern introduced Bolton to his former collaborator Wodehouse. By the end of the evening, the three had agreed to work together. Their first full collaboration was Have a Heart.

The musical takes place in (fictional) Blueport, Rhode Island in the present (1917). Act I: Lingerie Room at Schoonmaker’s Department Store; Act II: Lounge of the Ocean View Hotel.

Estranged couple Ruddy and Peggy Schoonmaker still love each other, but he is involved with predatory Dolly Barbizon and she is being wooed by confidence man Captain Charles Owen, who is passing forged currency. On the eve of their divorce, Ruddy and Peggy run off together and hide out at the Ocean View Hotel in Rhode Island. Dolly, Owen, and others track them down, and through the quick thinking of the elevator boy Henry, the forger is exposed.

Rehearsals began during the first week in December 1916.

Have A Heart premiered in Atlantic City at Nixon’s Apollo Theatre on the Boardwalk on December 28, 1916. It featured 40 beautiful girls - who could sing!

On New Year’s Day, the musical was at the Trent Theatre in Trenton NJ, followed by the Reading Academy of Music in PA (attended by Kern and Bolton), and a single night at the Playhouse in Wilmington DE.

The hit song was the second-act duet “You Said Something” for Ted and Lizzie. Kern himself preferred “And I Am All Alone,” sung by Ruddy and Peggy. The patter song “Napoleon” was recorded by its originator Billy B. Van.

“He was shorn off short, But was one good sport And I take after Nap!”

Have a Heart opened on Broadway at the Liberty Theatre (234 West 42nd Street) on January 11, 1917. It played 76 performances.

About the Venue: The Liberty was built in 1904 to present Rogers Brothers musicals. In 1933, it was made over as a movie theatre and continued this function into the 1980s. In 2000, Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum was built on the site. Although the building's exterior is still standing, the interior is no longer in use as a theatre.

"’Have a Heart' never will astound anybody by its originality, but it moves with a swing that is not unlikely to carry it to success in a season when lively musical comedy is in demand. Now and then there is a bright line, and the authors have shown considerable skill in distributing the dullness. Just when it begins to be oppressive someone says something about love being the greatest thing in the world and the orchestra leader gets up and conducts a musical number.” ~ NEW YORK TRIBUNE

“A vacuous and melancholy specimen.... I can discover nothing In the affair worthy of mention.” ~ GEORGE JEAN NATHAN

“Bolton has fallen down on hie dialogue as he usually does for he has a faculty for starting out toward a clever line and then making a miserable failure of It by poor construction.” ~ EMORY B. CALVERT

~ March 11, 1917

The show played its final performance on March 17, 1917 clocking 76 shows on Broadway. It immediately transferred to Philadelphia’s Forrest Theatre.

In the two years following its Broadway opening, with a Company A and a Company B touring simultaneously, it played in no fewer than 36 states and five Canadian provinces.

Have A Heart returned to Atlantic City at The New Nixon Theatre (later known as The Globe Theatre) on the Boardwalk on April 9, 1917.

The Victor Light Opera recorded excerpts in 1930. The musical was revived in New York by Musicals Tonight in May 2004. In 2005, Comic Opera Guild released a complete cast recording. In 2016, it was produced by the Ohio Light Opera.

#Jerome Kern #Have A Heart #Broadway Musical #Musical Comedy #Princess Musicals #PG Wodehouse #Guy Bolton #Atlantic City #Nixon's Apollo Theatre #New Nixon's Theatre #Boardwalk #1917 #Henry W. Savage #musical #Maria Dresser #Flora Zabelle #Billy B. Van

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st-hedge · 6 months

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To the temple in the woods

#loz #legend of zelda #twilight princess #loz tp #link #that’s where we are headed #the fucking temple of time #now I know this is not what the way looked like in the game #and at this point link has the Hylian shield and master sword #I spliced a whole lot of references for the vibe the journey had #not accuracy #the in game sequence to discovering the temple and entering it to the music made me so nostalgic #I definitely cried a lil

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justalitlecreacher · 2 years

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The trope where a character overhears something out of context and assumes the worst is usually annoying and bad but I really think it works well in Shrek

We, the audience, know that Fiona is talking about herself but, regardless, she’s calling herself these terrible things because she is an ogre. If Fiona is these things because she is is an ogre what does that make Shrek?

If Fiona says no one could love her because she is an ogre, she is saying that Shrek is also unloveable whether she wants to or not.

Imo the scene is a really good portrayal of how when you talk poorly of yourself or others for having a trait, you’re also talking about every other person who shares that trait; even if you love them or think what you’re saying doesn’t apply to them.

#Shrek #shrek the musical #princess fiona #I actually have a lot of feelings about Shrek rn

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galactic-rhea · 2 months

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Ah yes, the "evil" family.

I thought it would be even more funny if it was Luke, of all people, the one who wanted to watch Bloodbath in the Black Moon of the Dragon System.

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#star wars #sw #star wars fanart #skywalker family #darth vader #princess leia #leia organa #luke skywalker #my art #star wars au #anakin skywalker #why would vader want to watch a slasher movie? that's his day to day #he would be annoyed at how irrealistic the murders are or something #now a space opera (but make it literal) with music? alien stuff #totally crazy the most obvious tropes are shocking

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phyllisrogersstan · 9 months

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once the dissertation is written, i plan on getting very into the Princess Musicals. seems like a fun pivot to me

#jerome kern #princess musicals #diary of a baby academic

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livelovecaliforniadreams · 1 year

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louisbxne · 4 months

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AALIYAH

ARE YOU THAT SOMEBODY (1998) Dir. Mark Gerard

#aaliyah #aaliyah haughton #aaliyahedit #are you that somebody #ayts #rnb #dr doolittle #princess of r&b #rnbsource #musicgifs #dailywoc #dailymusicians #userpcultures #90s #90s music #1998 #popularcultures #dailywomen #musicedit

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cleangirl00 · 3 months

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#coquette #clean girl #pilates aesthetic #pink pilates girl #pink pilates princess #pinkcore #2024 #clean girl aesthetic #motivation #new year #collage #pink moodboard #moodboard #music #makeup #girlblogging #girlhood

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aangarchy · 5 months

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Incredibly specific moments in atla i think about ALL the time (i am Not normal)

Zuko's eyes slightly widening when witnessing Katara's bloodbending for the first time

Aang and Katara just missing each other looking back at the other after their argument in The Warriors of Kyoshi

Toph holding onto Sokka's arm once on Appa when he didn't have a saddle and once on the boat bringing them to the lake town

The moon being in full view as Suki tries to kiss Sokka in the Serpent's Pass, and the shadow returning as Sokka leaves

The "four seasons for love" motif coming back throughout the episodes of the Northern Watertribe and specifically as Sokka gives himself up to serve in the battle against Zhao's seige and Yue turns away and quietly cries as she watches him walk off

Longshot talking for the first time ever as Jet lay dying

In that same breath, the way Toph says "he's lying" as they walk away from Jet knowing that he's going to die

Aang looking back at the Southern Airtemple ruins along with Momo as they fly away from it, seeing it disappear behind the clouds (this one specifically makes me cry so much)

The chants as Aang gets summoned by the Lion Turtle in book 3 being the SAME as the chants when Aang fuses with the ocean spirit in book 1 (there's other moments with these chants i think but i can't remember them off the top of my head)

Aang taking down Ozai's airship in the finale as his first attack and Sokka cheering him on like a proud older brother

Katara immediately without a shadow of a doubt responding "Aang won't lose" when Zuko questions if he'll be able to take on Ozai

Aang knowing Zuko was gonna fire at him in the crystal catacombs as soon as Zuko laid eyes on him (he gasped before Zuko even made a move) when even Azula wasn't sure what Zuko was gonna do in that scenario

#idk if 4 seazons for love is the correct name of the song #but it's the one iroh sings on music night before zhao interrupts #avatar the last airbender #atla #avatar #aang #avatar aang #zuko #sokka #katara #suki #toph #toph beifong #prince zuko #firelord ozai #azula #princess azula #princess yue

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robotpussy · 2 months

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"lesbian/sapphic musicians need to stop making music about longing for a woman's touch and start writing about sucking and fucking" this is what happens when you don't listen to music made by black lesbians, you think all lesbian music revolves around yearning. IF YOU DONT TURN ON SOME YOUNG M.A OR SYD AND STFU.....

#sick of you losers who are scared of black lesbians like of course you think lesbian music is lacking #all you touch is king princess and girl in red!

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heavenly-angell · 1 month

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