Operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel and Laurence Schwab. THE NEW MOON was the third and last in a string of Broadway hits for Romberg.
Robert is a young French aristocrat whose revolutionist inclinations force him to flee his country. He sells himself as a bond-servant to planter and ship owner Monsieur Beaunoir in New Orleans in 1792 under an assumed name. As the police of Paris are looking everywhere for him, Robert cannot tell Beaunoir or his beautiful daughter Marianne, with whom he has fallen in love, that he is of noble blood. Eventually he is tracked down by Vicomte Ribaud, the detective villain, and put aboard The New Moon so that he can be deported back to France. There is a mutiny, and Robert and the bond-servants come into power. Everyone goes ashore on the Isle of Pines and a new republic is founded which flourishes under Robert's guidance.
