History Theatre / NaughtyMarietta

* CorruptPolitician: Lieutenant-Governor Grandet.[[spoiler: His son, Etienne, is Bras Pique. And he's one of the only two people who know. His family uses whipping boys to take punishments for them. Silas gets appointed as the new whipping-boy midway through the operetta.]]
* DevilInPlainSight: No-one except his father and his slave mistress Adah has ''the slightest clue'' that [[spoiler: Etienne is really Bras Pique or that he wants to establish Louisiana as an independent nation, a dictatorship under his control]]

* IJustWantToBeFree: When Adah is freed at the climax, she [[spoiler: exposes Etienne's secret]]

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

In 1935 ''Naughty Marietta'' was loosely adapted into a film directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring Creator/JeanetteMacDonald as Marietta and Nelson Eddy as Warrington. It was the first of [[ThoseTwoActors eight musical films]] that co-starred [=MacDonald=] and Eddy. The film took many liberties with the plot of the operetta, including changing Marietta into a French princess named Marie, and eliminating the characters of Lizette, Simon/Silas, and Etienne in order to concentrate on the Marie-Warrington romance. Forty years later, [=MacDonald=]'s performance of "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life" was memorably sampled in ''Film/YoungFrankenstein''.

* MixedAncestry: Adah.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Marie, scrambling to avoid getting forced into a casquette girl marriage, obliquely tells the governor that she used to be a prostitute.
--> '''Marie''': Surely you have room in New Orleans for a girl who doesn't want to become a housewife, who likes to be charming and pleasant?"

* BreakawayPopHit: 'Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life', the DreamMelody, is an older example, since ''Naughty Marietta'' was written in 1910.

In 1935 ''Naughty Marietta'' was loosely adapted into a film directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring Jeanette [=MacDonald=] as Marietta and Nelson Eddy as Warrington. It was the first of [[ThoseTwoActors eight musical films]] that co-starred [=MacDonald=] and Eddy. The film took many liberties with the plot of the operetta, including changing Marietta into a French princess named Marie, and eliminating the characters of Lizette, Simon/Silas, and Etienne in order to concentrate on the Marie-Warrington romance. Forty years later, [=MacDonald=]'s performance of "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life" was memorably sampled in ''Film/YoungFrankenstein''.

-->'''Etienne:'''(''at Quadroon Ball, where he's auctioning her'') "La Belle Adah, the most beautiful slave in New Orleans!"

* ImpossiblyLongNote: Eddy holds a note so long that all the music stops and all the other characters gawk at him.
* IndenturedServant: Sort of. Casquette girls (and this was a thing that happened in RealLife) were sent to Louisiana all expenses paid in the expectation they would marry a French colonial. If they didn't, they were supposed to go back to France.

The story is set in 1780 New Orleans, and focuses on American Captain Dick Warrington's attempt to capture the notorious pirate Bras Pique, as well as his developing relationship with the beautiful and spirited Neapolitan Countess Marietta D'Altena, who's come to New Orleans as a casquette girl to escape an ArrangedMarriage and to find the man who can complete her DreamMelody, as that's who it's foretold she'll marry. There's also romantic tension between Lizette, another casquette girl, and Silas, Captain Dick's and later French Lieutenant-Governor Grandet's servant (called Simon in the original premiere, then changed to Silas in other versions). It was made into a movie by MGM in 1935, starring Jeanette [=MacDonald=] as Marietta and Nelson Eddy as Warrington in their first collaboration.

* RebelliousPrincess: Marietta is a non-royal version.

* TheBigEasy

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The story is set in 1780 New Orleans, and focuses on American Captain Dick Warrington's attempt to capture the notorious pirate Bras Pique, as well as his developing relationship with the beautiful and spirited Neapolitan Countess Marietta D'Altena, who's come to New Orleans as a casquette girl to escape an ArrangedMarriage and to find the man who can complete her DreamMelody, as that's who it's foretold she'll marry. There's also romantic tension between Lizette, another casquette girl, and Silas, French Lieutenant-Governor Grandet's servant (called Simon in the original premiere, then changed to Silas in other versions). It was made into a movie by MGM in 1935, starring Jeanette [=MacDonald=] as Marietta and Nelson Eddy as Warrington in their first collaboration.

* CorruptPolitician: Lieutenant-Governor Grandet.[[spoiler: His son, Etienne, is Bras Pique. ''And he's one of the only two people who know. His family uses whipping boys to take punishments for them. Silas gets appointed as the new whipping-boy midway through the operetta.'']]

* HalfBreed: Adah.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: New Orleans was owned by ''Spain, not France'', in 1780.

** The title song, where Marietta sings about how "there are two little maidens that live in my heart" and "when I'm good I'm very very good, but when I'm bad I'm horrid!

The story is set in 1780 New Orleans, and focuses on American Captain Dick Warrington's attempt to capture the notorious pirate Bras Pique, as well as his developing relationship with the beautiful and spirited Neapolitan Countess Marietta D'Altena, who's come to New Orleans as a casquette girl to escape an ArrangedMarriage and to find the man who can complete her DreamMelody, as that's who it's foretold she'll marry. There's also romantic tension between Lizette, another casquette girl, and Silas, French Lieutenant-Governor Grandet's servant (called Simon in the original premiere, then changed to Silas in other versions). It was made into a movie by MGM in 1935, starring Jeanette[=MacDonald=] as Marietta and NelsonEddy as Warrington in their first collaboration.

The story is set in 1780 New Orleans, and focuses on American Captain Dick Warrington's attempt to capture the notorious pirate Bras Pique, as well as his developing relationship with the beautiful and spirited Neapolitan Countess Marietta D'Altena, who's come to New Orleans as a casquette girl to escape an ArrangedMarriage and to find the man who can complete her DreamMelody, as that's who it's foretold she'll marry. There's also romantic tension between Lizette, another casquette girl, and Silas, French Lieutenant-Governor Grandet's servant (called Simon in the original premiere, then changed to Silas in other versions). It was made into a movie by MGM in 1935, starring Jeanette [=MacDonald=] as Marietta and Nelson Eddy as Warrington in their first collaboration.