Enter the Guardsmanis a musical based on Ferenc Molnár's play The Guardsman, with music by Craig Bohmler, lyrics by Marion Adler, and a book by Scott Wentworth.
The story concerns an actor who tests his actress wife's love by sending her roses as a secret admirer and disguising himself as a guardsman to seduce her.
Enter the Guardsman won the first Musical of the Year competition in Aarhus, Denmark in 1996.[1] The musical was then presented in 1997 at London's Donmar Warehouse, under a sponsorship between Donmar and the Useful Group.[2] It was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best New Musical in 1998. In 1999, Enter the Guardsman premiered in the U.S. at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival.[3] A limited engagement of fifteen performances subsequently took place at the Dimson Theater in New York City in 2000.[4][5]
^Rampton, James (25 September 1996). "Let's do the show in Aarhus". The Independent. Independent Digital News and Media Limited. Retrieved 1 August 2023. They eventually agreed that the not inconsiderable first prize of pounds 40,000 should go to Enter the Guardsman, a sophisticated musical reworking by Americans Scott Wentworth, Craig Bohmler and Marion Adler of Ferenc Molnar's play about an actor who disguises himself as a guardsman to seduce his own wife.
^Wolf, Matt (1997-09-28). "Enter the Guardsman". Variety. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
^Dietz, Dan (2019). The Complete Book of 1920s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 84. ISBN 9781538112823.
^Gelder, Lawrence Van (2000-05-23). "THEATER REVIEW; Bittersweet Marriage Caught in a Musical". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
^Hofler, Robert (2000-05-23). "Enter the Guardsman". Variety. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
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