The Silver Star (musical)
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The Silver Star is a musical in three acts with both book and lyrics by Harry B. Smith and music by many composers. A Christmas musical, the work was created for the Danish dancer Adeline Genée who portrays the central character of Viola.
As a young child, Viola was found abandoned and wearing a silver star by a hobo-musician, Professor Alfonzo Dinel, who has raised her as his adopted daughter. One Christmas Eve, Viola and the professor deceive a wealthy family with a mansion on Fifth Avenue that Viola is the long-lost daughter of a wealthy banker in order to win an invitation to their lavish Christmas party. They attend the party, but their deception is discovered. In the attempt to get away, Viola is magically transported first to Paris, France and later to London, England. In a series of magical transformations, Genée transforms back and forth from Viola into various dancing characters, including "The Christmas Fairy", "The Spirit of Champagne", and "The Queen of the Floral Fete". In London Viola is united with her birth father.[1]