Sweethearts can refer to two stage works, a play by W.S. Gilbert and a musical play by Victor Herbert

Sweethearts is a comic play in two acts by W. S. Gilbert ()[].

The original text

Billed as a "dramatic contrast" in two acts it is a play about the differing recollections of a man and a woman about their last meeting together before being separated and reunited after 30 years.

First produced on 7 November 1874 at the Prince of Wales's Theatre in London, running for 132 performances until 13 April 1875. There have been many revivals till the 1920s.

Translations and adaptations

The plot suggests this could have been a source of inspiration for the superb BBC TV series As Time Goes By.

Performance history in South Africa

Sweethearts an operetta/ musical play in two acts by Victor Herbert ()[]

The music is by Victor Herbert, lyrics by Robert B. Smith and book by Harry B. Smith and Fred de Gresac

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweethearts_(play)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweethearts_(musical)

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205

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