Buddies (musical) explained

Buddies
Date Of Premiere:	October 17, 1919
Place:	Selwyn Theatre New York City
Original Language:	English

Buddies is a 1919 Broadway musical by George V. Hobart^[1] and with music by Bentley Collingwood Hilliam.^[2] After an initial run in Boston starting on August 12, it opened at the Selwyn Theatre on October 17, 1919, and played for 259 performances through June 12, 1920. The musical is set in Brittany, France.

Principal Broadway cast

• Camile Dalberg as Madame Benoit^{[3] [4]}
• Peggy Wood as Julie
• Roland Young as Babe
• Donald Brian as Sonny
• Maxine Brown as Louise Maitland
• Richard Cramer as Rube
• Edouard Durand as Alphone Pettibois
• Pauline Garon as Babette
• Robert Middlemass as Biff

Notes and References

1. (2 February 1926). Geo. Hobart Passes Away in Maryland, Plattsburgh Sentinel (Associated Press byline) ("Hobart's most pronounced stage success was the morality play "Experience." Among the best known other plays were "Our Mrs. McChesney, written for Ethel Barrymore; "Miss Print," designed as a vehicle for Marie Dressler; "Sonny"; "Buddies" and "Sweet Sixteen".)
2. Book: American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle. Bordman, G.M.. Norton, R.. 2010. Oxford University Press. 9780199729708. 394. 2015-08-21.
3. Woollcott, Alexander (29 October 1919). The Play, The New York Times
4. (28 October 1919). 'Buddies' A Comedy With Few Flaws, The Sun (New York), p. 8, col. 3.