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The Wedding Day is a comic opera in three acts with book and lyrics by Stanislaus Stange and music by Julian Edwards. It opened at the Casino Theatre, New York on 8 April 1897. Actually it was an adaptation of Audran's La Petite Fronde, and in this instance Edwards merely supplemented the score. In its story a French peasant girl, a lady and a baker combined their efforts to secure a Franco-Spanish treaty. Although it offered three top stars in the same show — a rarity at the time — it was something of a disappointment. Jefferson De Angelis, Della Fox and Lillian Russell combined could not earn it more than seventy-two performances in two separate engagements.

Dramatis Personæ

POLYCOP Jefferson de Angelis
PLANCHETTE Alfred Whealan
DUC DE BOUILLON William Pruette
RAOUL Tom Greene
POMADE Leonard Savoy
SOUFFLÉ W. H. Dodd
SERGEANT Winfield Blake
LAUBERT Albert McGuckin
ROSE MARIE Della Fox
MADAME DE MONTBAZON Lucille Saunders
AUNT HORTENSE Louise Riall
RENÉE May Guthbert
COURCY Grace Freeman
VILLIERS Sally Randall
VARNEY Marguerite Leon
LUCILLE D'HERBLAY Lillian Russell

MIDI Files

ACT I   -   Interior of Polycop's Baker Shop.

ACT II   -   Salon of Madame de Montbazon's House.

ACT III   -   Frondist Outpost.

MIDI Files


External Link
Vocal Score at the Internet Archive

American Musical Theatre

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