page_title: Evangeline (1874 musical)
section_title: Synopsis
hierarchical_section_title: Evangeline (1874 musical) / Synopsis
caption_attribution_description: Rice's Beautiful Evangeline. Poster for the play by Edward E. Rice. Lithograph by , 1896. From the Performing Arts Poster Collection at the Library of Congress More Strobridge posters &#x7c; More performing arts posters [PD] This picture is in the public domain
context_page_description: Evangeline; or, The Belle of Acadia is a musical Extravaganza, with music by Edward E. Rice and lyrics and book by J. Cheever Goodwin. It was a comedy loosely based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's serious epic poem Evangeline. The title character is a young American maiden of French Acadian stock, who is forced to leave her home and is separated from her beloved. A notary stalks her, holding a secret will that may prevent her from gaining her inheritance.
  The extravaganza debuted at Niblo's Garden in New York City on July 27, 1874, and received many revivals throughout the late 19th century.
context_section_description: Young Evangeline (or Eva) is an American girl of French Acadian stock, who becomes betrothed to her beloved, Gabriel. She comes to harbor some deserting sailors, and she and her companions are arrested for this crime by Captain Dietrich of the British Army, who intends to send her to France by ship for imprisonment in the Bastille. She is separated from Gabriel. Her friend Eulalie hopes for women's rights. The ship carrying her, her companions and her beautiful, dancing heifer runs aground off the coast of a diamond-rich African country, ruled by savage King Boorioboola Gha. 
  A series of lovesick wanderings and episodes ensue, including a meeting with a monster whale and a balloon flight to Arizona's uncharted Indian territory. Evangeline is pursued, wherever she goes by the foolhardy Le Blanc, an Acadian notary, who holds a secret will that will legally divert Evangeline's inheritance to himself if she signs a marriage contract, an event that is repeatedly, ludicrously interrupted. All ends happily.
caption: Poster for Evangeline (1896)
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