Show Synopsis:
Robert flees the early political climate of the French Revolution and sells himself to the Beaunoir family in New Orleans. Robert falls in love with with Marianne Beaunoir but is captured and put aboard a ship to France. Marianne pretends that she is in love with the ship?s captain Duval so that she can go too but Robert believes she was the one who betrayed him to the French. Robert and the bond-servants gain power over Duval in a mutiny and form a new republic on an island, which Robert leads. Marianne refuses to marry him, the French try to reclaim the island, and Robert must renounce his title because of the dangers of the French Revolution. He gladly does so and lives happily ever after with Marianne.
Character:
Marianne Beaunoir, a beautiful and wealthy young woman in love with Robert.
Robert, a young French aristocrat who empathizes with the revolutionaries in his home country; brimming with ingenuity; a natural-born leader.
Fun Facts:
1. New Moon has a strong reputation as Broadway's last hit operetta.
2. In the 1930 MGM film adaptation, the story was rewritten and transplanted to take place in Russia. 3. This song was one of a few that Oscar Hammerstein II and Sigmund Romberg composed for the second version of New Moon after a disastrous try-out in Philadelphia.
"ROBERT
MY heart is aching for someone
And you are that someone.
You know the truth of my story.
You must believe what you see.
MARIANNE
I, too, may someday love someone
From somewhere there?ll come one,
One who will hear the same story
That you?re telling me
ROBERT
Wanting you, ev?ry day I am wanting you.
Ev?ry night I am longing to
Hold you close to my eager breast,
Wanting love, in that heaven I?m dreaming of,
Makes that heaven seem far above.
Any hope that I?ll gain my quest
Dreams are vain, but I cling to the
Merest chance that you may hear me.
Dreams are vain, for whenever I wake,
I never find you near me.
Wanting you, nothing else in this world will do.
In this world you are all that I adore,
All I adore.
MARIANNE
Wanting you, ev?ry day I am wanting you.
Ev?ry night I am longing to
Hold you close to my eager breast.
Wanting love, in that heaven I?m dreaming of,
Makes that heaven see far above
Any hope that I?ll gain my quest.
BOTH
Dreams are vain, but I cling to the
Merest chance that you may hear me.
Dreams are vain, for whenever I wake,
I never find you near me.
MARIANNE
Wanting you, nothing else in this world will do.
BOTH
In this world you are all that I adore,
All that I adore."