Act 4 — DeKoven
Reading edition
SMITH and DeKoven, who have made countless thousands laugh, are living still, and will very likely continue to do gracious things for the comic-opera-loving public.
The very imperfect sketch of the opera, "Robin Hood," given in this book, is lacking in coherence and in completeness in every way, but a prompt-book, being necessary properly to give the story, is not obtainable. Rather than ignore an American performance which is so graceful, so elegant, and which should certainly be known to every child, an attempt had been made to outline the story.
Little idea can be had of the opera's charm from this sketch, but the opera is likely to live, even after the topical stories of "Pinafore" and "The Mikado" have lost their application, because the story of Robin Hood is romantic forever, and the DeKoven music is not likely to lose its charm.
"Robin Hood" was first produced at the Chicago Opera House, June 9, 1890, by the Bostonian Opera Company. In January, 1891, under the management of Mr. Horace Sedger, the opera was produced, under the title of "Maid Marian," at the Prince of Wales's Theatre in London. The cast included Mr. Haydn Coffin, Mr. Harry Markham, Miss Marion Manola, and Miss Violet Cameron.
ROBIN HOOD
CHARACTERS OF THE OPERA
Robin HoodEdwin H. Hoff
Little JohnW.H. Macdonald
ScarletEugene Cowles
Friar TuckGeorge Frothingham
Alan-a-DaleJessie Bartlett Davis
Sheriff of NottinghamH.C. Barnabee
Sir GuyPeter Lang
Maid MarianMarie Stone
AnnabelCarlotta Maconda
Dame DurdenJosephine Bartlett