''Enter the Guardsman ''is a musical based on

Ferenc Molnár Ferenc Molnár ( , ; born Ferenc Neumann; January 12, 1878April 1, 1952), often anglicized as Franz Molnar, was a Hungarians, Hungarian-born author, stage director, dramatist, and poet. He is widely regarded as Hungary's most celebrated and c ...

's play ''The Guardsman'', with music by

Craig Bohmler Craig Bohmler (born April 7, 1956)Hansen, Niels-Henning."En tilgang til den klassiske Musik" NielsHenning.dk. p. 145. Retrieved August 12, 2019. is an American composer who specializes in opera and musical theater. His musicals include ''Gunmetal B ...

, lyrics by Marion Adler, and a book by

Scott Wentworth Scott Wentworth (born 1955) is an American actor and director who immigrated to Canada in 1986. Early life Wentworth was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1955. Career After starting his career in New York City, he began a long association wit ...

. 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. The musical was then presented in 1997 at London's

Donmar Warehouse The Donmar Warehouse is a 251-seat, not-for-profit Off-West End theatre in Covent Garden, London, England. It first opened on 18 July 1977. Sam Mendes, Michael Grandage, Josie Rourke and Michael Longhurst have all served as artistic direc ...

, under a sponsorship between Donmar and the Useful Group. It was nominated for the

Olivier Award for Best New Musical The Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial London theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in ...

in 1998. In 1999, ''Enter the Guardsman'' premiered in the U.S. at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival. A limited engagement of fifteen performances subsequently took place at the Dimson Theater in New York City in 2000.

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