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When Sweet Sixteen is described as a "song play in two acts." The book and lyrics are by George V. Hobart and the music by Victor Herbert. The original Broadway production at Daly's Theatre, New York, opened on 14 September 1911.
Dramatis Personæ
| MR. JOHN HAMMOND (of Pittsburg) | Eugene Cowles |
| MRS. HAMMOND (his wife) | Dorothy Rossmore |
| VICTORIA (his daughter) | Harriet Standon |
| JEFFERSON TODD (his friend) | Frank Doane |
| STANLEY MORTON (Todd's Secretary) | Scott Welsh |
| GERTIE GREENE (a manicure) | Florence Nash |
| THE LAIRD OF LOCH-LOMOND | Harrison Brockbank |
| MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE (a social arbiter) | Sidney Bracy |
| ELEANOR BRADFORD (Victoria's friend) | Frances Gordon |
| MABEL BRADFORD (her other friend) | Natalie Alt |
| TOM (a butler) | William Betts |
| A WORKMAN | R. M. Dolliver |
ACT I - The Living Room in the Country House of the Hammonds in the suburbs of Pittsburg. A Wednesday morning in September.
- No. 1 - Opening Scene and Incidental Music (with frequently chiming Swiss clock.)
- No. 2 - Duet - Mabel and Eleanor, with Girls - "To a college filled with knowledge, girlies come from ev'rywhere; there are classics in profusion..."
- No. 3 - Song - Monsieur Beaucaire - "When you're out in society you will find ze gentlemen most polite..."
- No. 4 - Song - John Hammond - "Man is a curious creature, as history will tell, and it's difficult quite to size him right till you know him very well..."
- No. 5 - Song - Victoria and Girls - "My father went to work and joined the multi-millionaires, by buying some old silly stock or elevated shares..."
- No. 6 - Quartet - Morton, Todd, Laird and John - "Oh! the world may shake with laughter, or the world may weep with woe..."
- No. 7 - Song - Morton - "They found a wild rose, brave and sweet, deep in the forest glade, and in a garden fair, for it a city home they made..."
- No. 8 - Song - Todd - "As we go through this world now, our pace is a walk, because we must listen while others folks talk..."
- No. 9 - Ensemble - Morton, Victoria, Todd and others - "There once was a Princess, young and fair, with her wond'rous wealth and her jewels rare..."
- No. 10 - Chorus - "Some people have a stingy laugh, and some are broad and ample. Let's take the love-sick maiden's first, to start with for example..."
ACT II - The Pine Forest on the Estate of John Hammond, the following evening.
- No. 11 - Intermezzo
- No. 12 - Song - Morton - "When de daylight am a-winkin' and a-blinkin' at de night, and I sit befo' mah cabin all alone..."
- No. 13 - Song - Hammond and Male Chorus - "O'er the brim of a glass of wine, what visions we see, my boy! All the sparkling drops combine..."
- No. 14 - Song - Victoria and Girls - "When but a tiny litle girl, my mother used to say: 'You'll have the goodest dreams tonight...'"
- No. 15 - Song - Mabel and Chorus - "In the dear old forest of Arden, in the golden long ago, roamed a maiden fair with her sunlit hair..."
- No. 16 - Song - Beaucaire and Chorus - "Fifi was a little maid, so demure and shy, modest mien and manner staid, never roving eye..."
- No. 17 - Duet - Morton and Victoria - "Has Cupid laid in wait for you? ... I've never seen that boy..."
- No. 18 - Finale Ultimo - "I'd rather be a wild rose than any flow'r that grows; oh, set me free, I want to be a wild, wild rose."
MIDI Files
- External Link
- Vocal Score at Musopen
Page modified 24 May 2017