''Buddies'' is a 1919 Broadway musical by George V. Hobart(2 February 1926)
Geo. Hobart Passes Away in Maryland
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byline) ("Hobart's most pronounced stage success was the morality play "Experience." Among the best known other plays were "Our Mrs. McChesney, written for

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; "Miss Print," designed as a vehicle for

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; "Sonny"; "Buddies" and "Sweet Sixteen".) and with music by Bentley Collingwood Hilliam. After an initial run in

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starting on August 12, it opened at the

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on October 17, 1919, and played for 259 performances through June 12, 1920.

Principal Broadway cast

* Camile Dalberg as Madame BenoitWoollcott, Alexander (29 October 1919)
The Play
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''(28 October 1919)
'Buddies' A Comedy With Few Flaws
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as Julie *

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as Babe *

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as Sonny * Maxine Brown as Louise Maitland *

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as Rube * Edouard Durand as Alphone Pettibois *

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as Babette *

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as Biff

References

External links

* 1919 musicals Musicals about World War I Plays set in France Broadway musicals {{1910s-play-stub