Sweethearts

• Closed on the road (1913)
  Baltimore, MD
• Original Broadway Production (1913)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1929)
  New York, NY
• Film Version (1938)
• Paper Mill Playhouse Production (1942)
  Millburn, NJ
• Broadway Revival (1947)
  New York, NY
• Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Production (1948)
  Los Angeles, CA
• New York Concert (1983)
  New York, NY
• LOOM Revival (1986)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Iron! Iron! Iron!
  • aka Opening Chorus (Iron, Iron, Iron) [no note]
• On Parade
• Smiles
  • aka There Is Magic in a Smile [no note]
• Sweethearts
  • aka Sweethearts (If You Ask Where Love Is Found) [no note]
• Every Lover Must Meet His Fate
• Mother Goose
• The Angelus
• Jeanette and Her Wooden Shoes
  • aka Clip Clop Clop [no note]
  • aka Jeannette and Her Wooden Shoes [no note]
  • aka Sabot Dance [no note]
• Waiting for the Bride
• Dance Eccentrique
• Pretty as a Picture
• In the Convent They Never Taught Me That
• The Game of Love
• I Don't Know How I Do It but I Do
• The Cricket on the Hearth
• The Monks' Quartette
  • aka Quartet: The Pilgrims of Love [no note]

Cut prior to opening

• What She Wanted and What She Got
• Talk About This?Talk About That
• The Ivy and the Oak

Added to 1938 film version

• The Love of the Lorelei
• They All Look Good When They're Far Away
• I Might Be Your 'Once-in-a-While'
• Summer Serenade
• The Message of the Violet
• Keep It Dark
• Little Gray Home in the West
• Happy Day

Added to the 1947 revival

• Land of My Own Romance
• Pilgrims of Love

Status unknown

• Pretty One, I Have Vowed to Make You My Own
• Sylvia! Congratulations!
• For Every Lover
• Welcoming the Bride
• There Is Magic in a Smile
• Hail, Franz of Zilania
• Entrance of Sylvia

Recordings listed here were done in the studio specifically to release as recordings. They do not represent cast recordings of a particular production.

• Studio Cast (1980)
  Rosalind Rees , Kevin Elliott , Samantha Genton , Thomas Bogdan , Walter Richardson

Mikel Mikeloviz, disguised as a monk, transports Princess Jeanne, the infant daughter of King René of the little kingdom of Zilinia, to Bruges to wait in safety during the war. Dame Paula runs the Laundry of the White Geese and is known as Mother Goose. Mikel gives the princess to Paula in secret to raise as her own daughter under the name of Sylvia. Paula later has six daughters of her own who help her run the laundry. Their father has been at war for ten years.

22 years later, the people are demanding the restoration of a monarchy. Mikel is conspiring to restore Princess Jeanne to the throne, which is about to be offered to Prince Franz, the heir presumptive. Franz, while travelling in disguise, has fallen in love with Sylvia. But Sylvia, who does not know that she is really a princess, is bethrothed to Lieutenant Karl, a military lothario. A sleazy politician, disguised as Paula's battle-scarred husband, tries to ensnare one of the two apparently adopted daughters as the bride for Prince Franz, but he does not know whether the real adopted daughter is the scheming Liane or the sweet Sylvia. Mikel's plans are hindered by the schemes of three villains. Mikel also mistakes Liane, a milliner who has sought temporary employment in the Laundry of the White Geese, for the lost princess. After all the complications are combed out, Franz and Sylvia marry, vowing to rule together.

For the 1938 film version most of the Herbert songs used were given new lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest.