This is about the stage musical. For the film adaptation, see Roberta (1935 film).
Roberta.
Roberta is a stage musical.
Cast[]
- Bob Hope - Huckleberry Haines
- Tamara Drasin - Princess Stephanie
- Ray Middleton - John Kent
- Fay Templeton - Aunt Minnie/Roberta
- George Murphy - Billy Boyden
- Lyda Roberti - Madame Nunez/Clementina Scharwenka
- Sydney Greenstreet - Lord Henry Delves
- Bobette Christine - Angele
- William Hain - Ladislaw
- Nayan Pearce - Luella Laverne
- Mavis Walsh - Marie
Plot[]
John Kent, an all-American fullback at Haverhill College learns he has inherited a dress shop run by his Aunt Minnie. But the shop is in Paris where his Aunt Minnie trades under the name of Roberta. Her assistant is a young lady named Stephanie. John proposes that she runs the shop in partnership with him. She agrees. A budding romance between the two almost comes to naught when Sophie, John's old college girlfriend, appears on the scene. John knows that Sophie has run off once before and suspects that she would do it again.
Only as they are about to be married does Stephanie reveal that she is a Russian princess.
Musical numbers[]
- Act I
- "Let's Begin" - Billy Boyden and Ensemble
- "Alpha, Beta, Pi" - Huckleberry Haines, Billy Boyden, John Kent and Ensemble
- "You're Devastating" - Huckleberry Haines
- "Let's Begin" (Reprise) - Billy Boyden, John Kent, Huckleberry Haines and Male Ensemble
- "You're Devastating" (Reprise) - Stephanie
- "Yesterdays" - Aunt Minnie
- "Something's Got to Happen" - Mme. Nunez, Huckleberry Haines and John Kent
- "The Touch of Your Hand" - Stephanie and Ladislaw
- "I'll Be Hard to Handle" - Mme. Nunez
- Act II
Hot Spot Mme. Nunez, Billy Boyden, Marie, Angele and Luella
- "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" - Stephanie
- "Let's Begin" (Reprise) - Huckleberry Haines and Stephanie
- "Something's Got to Happen" (Reprise) - Mme. Nunez and John Kent
- "Let's Begin" (Reprise) - Huckleberry Haines, John Kent, Mme. Nunez and Lord Henry Delves
- "Don't Ask Me Not to Sing" - Huckleberry Haines and California Collegians
- "I'll Be Hard to Handle" (Reprise) - Mme. Nunez