The serenade
Contributors: Smith, Harry B. (Harry Bache), 1860-1936; Aborn Opera Company; Bostonians (Theater group); New National Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1908
Language: eng
Description: New National Theatre, Wm. H. Rapley, manager, Wm. H. Fowler, acting manager, C.D. Jacobson, treasurer, Robert E. Long, press representative. Aborn Opera Company (direction of Milton and Sargent Aborn) in the Bostonians' comic opera success, "The Serenade," (first choice in the voting contest), book by Harry B. Smith, music by Victor Herbert.
Notes: New National Theatre [Washington, D.C.], week beginning Monday, July 6, 1908. Matinee Wednesday and Saturday.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: William Schuster, Forrest Huff, Edith Bradford, Huntington May, Harold Blake, Phil Branson, George B. Frothingham, C.W. Phillips, Zoe Fulton, Trixie Cadiz, Millie Murray, Lenna Duer, Irma Bell, Marjorie Ramey, May Ward, Dixie Crane, J.J. Macdonald, R. Nicholls, Joe Stelz, W.J. Lyons, Jack O'Neill, Blanche Morrison.

"Next week, matinee Wednesday and Saturday, Gilbert & Sullivan's ever-popular comic opera masterpiece, 'The Mikado,' (the second highest vote of our patrons) Cast of favorites. Edith Bradford, Harold Blake, George B. Frothingham, Huntington May, Chas. W. Meyer, Grace Orr Myers, Hattie Arnold, Al. Wilder, musical gems that everybody loves".

"Between the acts visit 'La Boheme,' two doors from this Theatre, French and American restaurant for ladies and gentlemen, Washington D.C., Pierre Bonseigneur (Frenchy)".

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).