Sweet Adeline (musical)

Sweet Adeline
MusicJerome Kern
LyricsOscar Hammerstein II
Productions1929 Broadway

Sweet Adeline is a musical with music by Jerome Kern, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and original orchestration by Robert Russell Bennett. It premiered on Broadway in 1929. The story, set in the Gay Nineties, concerns a Hoboken, New Jersey girl who, unlucky in love, becomes a Broadway star.